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.

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 ...

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 ...

It was 1906 Get Music on Tap Like Gas or Water promised the headlines and soon the public was enchanted with inventor Thaddeus Cahills 18671934 electrical music by wire The Telharmonium was a 200ton ...

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 ...