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More of Edison’s talking doll recordings restored

May 5, 2015May 5, 2015 / joanne m. austin / 2 Comments

In 2011, I wrote a story about the talking dolls that Thomas Edison produced and sold briefly in the late 1800s. The dolls had tiny record players in them, and they played wax discs onto which nursery rhymes had been recorded. The discs were very fragile and broke easily, which was one reason why the … Continue reading More of Edison’s talking doll recordings restored

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