Sound Recording, Edison, Tin Foil
name: label: maker
content: Edison, Thomas A.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a recording on a strip of tinfoil made on an Edison phonograph. The recording date is unknown. According to a letter in the accession file, Edison recalled lending a phonograph to the donor’s uncle in 1878. The donor’s uncle was, most likely, Dr. John Call Dalton, a prominent physiologist at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, whom Edison consulted about his growing deafness in March 1878.
label: Description
content: Sound was recovered from this recording in 2013. Content on sound file is an indistinct male voice talking. Possibly “…"John A Sutherland[?]" and " Charles H. Dalton [?]” and “Yours truly [?]."
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Edison Papers, 03/02/1878 John Call Dalton to Thomas Edison
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Communications
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content: Hear My Voice
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: H. R. Dalton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ME.308131
label: catalog number
content: 308131
label: accession number
content: 70320
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tin foil recording
label: Object Name
content: tin foil phonograph record
label: Object Name
content: Edison tin foil phonograph record
label: Object Name
content: phonorecord, tin foil
label: Object Name
content: Tin foil sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: tinfoil (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - tin foil: 18 in x 2 1/8 in; 45.72 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall - mounting: 19 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 50.165 cm x 9.525 cm