{"id":1044150,"date":"2010-12-27T18:12:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T18:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/nothing-says-merry-christmas-like-victorian-baby-talk-edisons-monstrous-talking-doll-circa-1890\/"},"modified":"2024-08-17T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T21:11:00","slug":"nothing-says-merry-christmas-like-victorian-baby-talk-edisons-monstrous-talking-doll-circa-1890-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/nothing-says-merry-christmas-like-victorian-baby-talk-edisons-monstrous-talking-doll-circa-1890-2.php","title":{"rendered":"Nothing says "Merry Christmas" Like Victorian Baby Talk: Edison’s Monstrous Talking Doll, circa 1890"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nothing says \"Merry Christmas\" like Victorian baby talk. Especially when it sounds like this<\/a>.<\/p>

More, from the Go Report website<\/a>:
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While we may never know what the ‘must have’ Christmas gift was in 1890, we do know that it most assuredly wasn’t Thomas Edison’s talking doll.<\/p>

Using miniature phonographs embedded inside, these “talking” baby dolls were toy manufacturers’ first attempt at using sound technology in toys. They marked a collaboration between Edison and William Jacques and Lowell Briggs, who worked to miniaturize the phonograph starting in 1878.<\/p>

Unfortunately, production delays, poor recording technology, high production costs, and damages during distribution all combined to create toys that were a complete disaster, terrifying children and costing their parents nearly a month’s pay.<\/p>

Edison would later refer to the dolls as his “little monsters.”<\/p><\/blockquote>

To hear this wee monstrous baby reciting, we are led to believe, \"Little Jack Horner,\" click here<\/a>. To read the entire story from which the above excerpt is drawn, click here<\/a>. Sound from Archive.org<\/a>.<\/p>

Thanks to my lovely friend Matt Murphy<\/a> for this charming holiday tale about a rare Edison commercial misfire.<\/p>

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