Experimental Sound Recording, Disc Layers of Cardboard, Plaster and Foil

Volta Laboratory Associates · ca 1885

This is an experimental sound recording made in the Volta Laboratory, Washington, D.C. In a ring around the center, it is marked with the initials for Sumner Tainter, one of the Volta Laboratory Associates, and a date: “S.T. Dec. 29th 1881.” This recording was copied from an 1881 master at an unknown later date.