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If he was trying to record the voices of the dead, in a way he succeeded...... as almost every record I have contains the voice of a dead person... with the exception of Tony Bennett!
Too bad he and Tesla couldn't have teamed up on that one .
I remember reading about how Harry Houdini (worlds greatest magician/escape artist) had told his wife Bess that if there was a way to come back from the dead and to visit her that he would. He died in 1926 some 17 years before she did and so i wonder if he was able to pull that off .
I remember reading about how Harry Houdini (worlds greatest magician/escape artist) had told his wife Bess that if there was a way to come back from the dead and to visit her that he would. He died in 1926 some 17 years before she did and so i wonder if he was able to pull that off .
Thanks for posting the link to the book excerpt as that was interesting . I'm still pondering as to whether he really did come back to her or if she was trying to capitalize on his name in her latter years.
Thanks for posting the link to the book excerpt as that was interesting . I'm still pondering as to whether he really did come back to her or if she was trying to capitalize on his name in her latter years.
Speaking of a machine to record the voices of the dead....
Below are links to the voices of Edison & Houdini. Their voices may be distorted by the recording process...but trust me...they were alive at the time!
A talk by GE founder Thomas Edison in a broadcast celebrating the 50th anniversary of the incandescent light bulb. It was recorded on a long forgotten machine that GE developed in 1922 called a pallophotophone — after the Greek words for “shaking light sound” — in one of the earliest attempts to record sound on film. But there was only one catch with the great find: There weren’t any known pallophotophones in existence to play back the lost pieces of history. Enter the museum’s curator, Chris Hunter, and GE’s engineers, who together cracked the pallophotophone code. Edison speaks! Cracking the pallophotophone code | GE Reports
Hear the rare, if not only, recording of the master magician speaking about his Water Torture Cell. Hear his wife Bess speak of his interest in Life After Death. Houdini Speaks
That was really cool to hear houdini and bess speaking . As for early recorded voices i like the 1896 campaign speech on youtube by then presidential candidate William Mckinely as i'm a diehard historian as well as interest in the sciences .
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. As for early recorded voices i like the 1896 campaign speech on youtube by then presidential candidate William Mckinely as i'm a diehard historian as well as interest in the sciences 
