In 1893, Thaddeus Cahill, a Washington-based, 115-pound hyper-metabolic child prodigy whose business instincts matched his scientific acumen, realized that tones generated from an electric dynamo ...

In 1893, a Washington D.C. lawyer and amateur inventor had a peculiar and particular vision: to create a service that streamed live music into restaurants, hotels, or even your Aunt Edith’s tea room.

The restaurant wars of early twentieth-century New York revolved not around which establishment had the best consommé or Beef Wellington, but instead which restaurant had the biggest, best, most ...

MAGIC MUSIC FROM THE TELHARMONIUM; Dr. Cahill's Electrical Machine Creates Musical Sound Without an Instrument and Puts Opera Symphony and Ragtime on Tap at the Telephone. Harmony Made to Issue From ...

Origins is a monthly column, where we will be talking about the history of various innovative technologies that we take for granted today. In 1897, a certain Thaddeus Cahill made a device called the ...