A FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE RECORD.
Forty-five years ago Florence Night* ingale, then an old lady of 70, allowed her voice to be recorded by one of the early experimenters with the phonograph (says the London correspondent of the Melbourne ‘ Age ’). When some time ago the 8.8. C. began to delvo into the past with their “ retrospect programmes ” the Edison Bell Gramophone Company searched through its early records and found, among others, this old soft wax cylinder on which the voice of the “ Lady of the Lamp ” had been so precariously preserved. Ait attempt to play the cylinder—which has developed a peculiar kind of fungus—would have destroyed its further use; but Mr Howard Flynn, the company’s manager, has been experiment* mg for some months and has now evolved an electrical “ pick-up ” which ensures the preservation of Miss Night* ingalo’s voice. It is a strong, firm voice, <which falters only once—when she refers to the soldiers of Balaclava, A record of it will.soon be available for general distribution really an astonishing achievement of science.
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Evening Star, Issue 22026, 11 May 1935, Page 2
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