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Experimental Sound Recording, Disc Layers of Cardboard, Plaster and Foil
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This is an experimental sound recording made in the Volta Laboratory, Washington, D.C. In a ring around the center, it is marked with the initials for Sumner Tainter, one of the Volta Laboratory Associates, and a date: “S.T. Dec. 29th 1881.” This recording was copied from an 1881 master at an unknown later date.
National Museum of American History’s own descriptionCredit lineExperimental Sound Recording, Disc Layers of Cardboard, Plaster and Foil. ca 1885. Volta Laboratory Associates. National Museum of American History, Gift of Alexander Graham Bell. CC0.
