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Tag Archives: The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
Edison’s Talking Dolls: “Little Monsters”
A government laboratory has worked a way to play back the recordings on fragile wax cylinders, which were the working vocals of the dolls made by Thomas Edison in 1890. Edison employed an army of hundreds of girls, (according to … Continue reading
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