People listening to a phonograph with for the first time during a cattle show in Tonstad, Norway, c. 1890's. pic.twitter.com/lEJuhkje2q
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- Electrotyped copper negative disc of a sound recording, deposited at SI in October 1881 in sealed tin box
Content: Tone; male voice saying: “One, two, three, four, five, six”; two more tones
- Glass disc recording, produced photographically on November 17, 1884
Inscription: “Exp. III Nov. 17 1884/Style vibrations to word/ Barometer/H. G. Rogers”
Content: male voice saying: “ba-ro-me-ter”; each syllable is distinct and the word is
- Glass disc recording, produced photographically on March 11, 1885
Content: male voice saying names, recording date, “Mary had a little lamb” repeated twice
- Disc recording in green wax on brass holder, probably 1885
Content: male voice reciting opening lines of “To be, or not to be” soliloquy from Hamlet
- Recording in wax on binder’s board, probably 1885
Content: in two segments with a gap in between; first segment is a male voice reading a story. At 51.8 seconds the voice suddenly changes to a high pitched “child imitation.” In the second segment a man is reading from a description of a New Hampshire factory.
- Recording in wax on binder’s board, probably 1885
Content: Unidentified long passage
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