Re: [Phono-L] edison's son made recording?/

Hi Allen:-- I can see how someone reading the New York Herald piece from 1895 in later years might have thought the story was supposed to have been set in the tinfoil era, but I don't believe it originally was. The subject is identified as Edison's "firstborn," and referred to as "it,"

Re: [Phono-L] edison's son made recording?

A story of this type was reported about Madeleine starting in 1888, involving wax rather than tinfoil, with numerous variants (including a couple where she was narrowly rescued from pinching but then cried anyway when the noise of some machinery frightened her). Sources include: "The Baby at