Episode 10 – Gladstone and the Undead Stenographer




Noise in the Groove: The Origin of Sound Recording show

Summary: The show is on the road again! This episode is mostly about Edison’s somewhat doomed attempt to market the phonograph in the UK as a business dictation machine in the 1890s. The discussion includes: a recording of William Gladstone’s voice, the ‘I’m not quite dead yet’ death of stenography, and brief looks at the histories+ Read More