IN STORAGE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12903, 2 July 1936, Page 3

IN STORAGE

“VOICES” DISCOVERED IN OLD j BOX. j WHAT GLADSTONE DID SAY I LONDON, May 30. Treasures which lay for more than 40 years in wooden boxes in a ware- ■. house in South-east London arc now being given to the world. Jhis week B.IUJ. listeners heard the voice of William Ewart Gladstone, the lungdead Liberal Premier. That voice came out of one ot the boxes. And this to answer a question that lias long agitated the public is what Gladstone actually did say on June I", 1890 “Tho voice 1 transmit is but a rrli, of an organ, the employment ot which has been overstrained. Wonders on wonders are opening before us. ’ ’ Enshrined in other boxes are the ghost-voices ot men and women thi.-. generation has not yet heard hut will. jn the office of the Edison Bell Go. in London is 11. frail wax cylinder that contains the frozen voice of Lord Tennyson reciting 1 lie C harge of the Light Brigade.” ‘‘J dare, not play it yet,” said Mr Howard Flynn, the discoverer of 'he wooden boxes. ‘■Only one record was made, there are 110 copies; no method of making a copy was known when it was made. Only one machine will play it. 1 have the machine here—tho first to he brought to ibis country after Edison invented it- Imt j- would probably damage flu: "ax. Tho voice must be re-recorded electricnil v, through sound filters. It is a long and delicate process.