Recording made available from the Edison National Historic Site.
Transcription for ebook #10137.
This recording is of Edison demonstrating how he made his first record on his tinfoil phonograph. The original 1877 recording was not saved and no longer exists.
“…ee (uh) first words I spoke in the original phonograph. A little piece of practical poetry. ‘Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow; and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.’”
16mm motion picture film, Thomas Edison National Historical Park, titled “Snapshots of Mr. Edison” (Identifier: E-156-2-3).