Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 722
ca before thephonograph had been brought out. It was constructed by Mr. Faber,and formed a very comphcated arrangement, in which all the organs ofhuman speech were imitated. There were bellows acting like the lungs ;a larynx with various diaphragms, a mouth with movable tongue and lips,and a tube… … Fig. 3191?.—Edisotis Original Phonograph. order, the machine pronounced words distinctly enough, but in a strangedrawling tone. So like, however, were the sounds to those of the humanvoice, that some accused the exhibitors of imposition, and unjustly■credited ventriloquism instead of mechanism with…
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