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Thomas Alva Edison «Mary had a little Lamb»
Edison’s famous first words to be recorded onto the wax cylinder were taken from the nursery rhyme ‹Mary Had A Little Lamb›. In 1877 this caused a sensation in the editorial office of the ‹Scientific American›. The original version was lost, and the version offered here is the recording Edison made again for nostalgic reasons in the year 1927.
 


 
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Categories: Audio Art

Keywords: Apparatus | Music

Relevant passages:

icon: authorDieter Daniels «Sound & Vision in Avantgarde & Mainstream »

Works by Thomas Alva Edison:

Kinetograph-theater| cinetoscope

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Paul DeMarinis| John Cage| Paul DeMarinis «The Edison Effect»| John Cage «Variations VII»


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 Thomas Alva Edison
«Phonograph»

From 1877 to 1891, Thomas Alva Edison invents an entire series of media devices, among which are the phonograph, which allows sounds to be recorded and played back for the first time, and based upon this the cinetoscope for playing images, as well as the film camera he named the cinematograph. In addition, during this period he develops concepts for synchronizing images and sound.

 

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