Re: [ARSCLIST] Earliest recorded sound update on NPR

[AllenAmet@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 6/2/2009 1:55:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
pattac@xxxxxxxx writes:

Edison's  intention was originally to write speech by actuating keys, but 
he stumbled  upon the logical possibility of playback of a recording. 


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Hi,
 
 Could you be more specific here? What do you mean by "write speech"?  And 
do you mean prior to July 1877? And do you mean in any way via a telegraph  
system, rather than telephone?

Allen