12:01 PM PST 12/31/2014 by. Serial fans have started keeping an eye on The Intercept after the publication scored a coveted interview with Jay Wilds, the key witness in Maryland's case against Adnan Syed for the 1999 murder of Hae Min Lee.
Take 1. The record player was originally invented in America by Thomas A. Edison the creator of the light bulb and other inventions. It was invented by Thomas in 1877. The first records were made out of tinfoil which had a spiral groove which went up and down.
Another invention of 1948 helped assure that rock and roll would be heard: the invention, by engineers at Columbia Records, of the 12-inch long-playing phonograph record. Earlier discs were recorded to be played at 78 revolutions per minute and could hold only eight to ten minutesâ worth of material.