‘Astonished and somewhat terrified’ – Victorians’ reactions to the phonograph
In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph – the world’s first device capable of capturing and playing back sound.
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Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the phonographAeon