Editing Edison Records (section)

{{Short description|Early record label}}
{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Edison Records
| image       = EdisonRecords1903Ad.jpg
| image_size  = 200px
| caption     = 1903 advertisement
| parent      = Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
| founded     = {{start date and age|1888}}
| founder     = [[Thomas Edison]]<br /> Jesse H. Lippincott
| fate        = <!-- explain the reason of the closing-->
| defunct     = {{end date and age|1929}}
| status      = Defunct
| distributor = Independent
| genre       = Various
| country     = U.S.
| location    = [[West Orange, New Jersey]]
| website     = <!-- such as "{{URL|www.atlanticrecords.com}}" -->
}}

'''Edison Records''' was one of the early [[record label]]s that pioneered [[sound recording and reproduction]], and was an important and successful company in the early [[recording industry]].

The first [[phonograph]] cylinders were manufactured in 1888, followed by Edison's foundation of the Edison Phonograph Company in the same year. The recorded wax cylinders, later replaced by [[Blue Amberol]] cylinders, and vertical-cut Diamond Discs, were manufactured by Edison's [[Thomas A. Edison, Inc.|National Phonograph Company]] from 1896 on, reorganized as Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in 1911. Until 1910 the recordings did not carry the names of the artists. The company began to lag behind its rivals in the 1920s, both technically and in the popularity of its artists, and halted production of recordings in 1929.