MR EDISON’S BABY AND HIS PHONOGRAPH.
According to the New York Herald Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, has been interesting himself with his new baby and a phonograph at his home. When the baby crowed with glee, the crow was registered on the phonograph ; when it got mad and yelled, its piercing screams were irrevocably recorded'on the same machine. That phonograph is now a receptacle of every known noise peculiar to babyhood. It is Mr Edison’s intention to take a record of the strength of the baby’s lungs every three months. . *1 will preserve the record,’ said be, ‘Until the child becomes a young lady. Then the phonograph can be operated for her benefit, and she can see for herself just what kind of a baby she, was, and won’t have to take her mother’s and the nurse’s words for iti’
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8526, 5 November 1888, Page 3
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