Where’s Russia headed? One good place to receive an answer was the just-concluded St. Petersburg Global Business Forum, which followed the strained G-8 meeting in Germany. According to Russian Economics Minister German Gref, more than ten thousand folks from over sixty states took part [...]
It was only 130 years back when the music recording industry first got its start. In 1878 Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, which recorded sound.
Initially planned to relay telegram messages and for automated speech through the telephone, the phonograph came a year and a half after the phone.
Technically, Edison had worked out the [...]