Volta Laboratory

Early wax records

disc 1 - 1881

 

disc 4 - 1885

Hamlet’s Soliloquy (“To be or not to be”)

disc 5 - 1885

disc 6 - 1885

Don't miss the excellent work of the historian searcher Patrick Feaster 

specialist in the history, culture, and preservation of early sound media. 

This research happened within the scope of FirstSounds

showing us early wax records (in between 1881 and 1885) of the Volta Laboratory,

as well make us listen the sound contents of these experimental sound recordings preserved 

in the collections of the National Museum of American History. 

All details of the research HERE

& other interresting sources at Phonozoic

 glass plate recording - 1885
“Mary Had a Little Lamb”






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