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Tucked away for decades in a cabinet in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, just behind the cot in which the great inventor napped, a trove of wax cylinder phonograph records has been brought back to life after more than a century of silence.
The cylinders, from 1889 and 1890, include the only known recording of the voice of the powerful chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Two preserve the voice of Helmuth von Moltke, a venerable German military strategist, reciting lines from Shakespeare and from Goethe’s “Faust” into a phonograph horn. (Moltke was 89 when he made the recordings — the only ones known to survive from someone born as early as 1800.)
Bismarck's Voice Among Restored Edison Recordings
Seeded on Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:54 PM EST
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Interesting article. I wonder what Bismarck sounded like. I remember that as a kid, I was shocked to hear that US General Patton's voice was not at all like Hollywood actor George C. Scott, who played him in the film Patton. Unlike Scott's rough growl that I had expected of the tough general, the real Patton's voice was higher and thinner.
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