Professor Faber’s “talking machine,” operated by a piano-like keyboard, generated humanoid speech through a rather unsettling bodiless mask that stared eerily ahead. Still, the machine sold a lot of ...
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Talking tin foil -- Cylinders in business -- Entertainment for a nickel -- Emile Berliner's disc -- At home with the phonograph -- The improving gramophone -- Europe welcomes the talking machine -- A ...