Edison phonograph’s first, sensational demonstration in Paris in March 1878

hear the first recording, tinfoil, 1878, paris

http://www.scpr.org/blogs/news/2012/10/25/10712/hear-thomas-edison-sing-rare-1878-audio-restored-f/

http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/index.php/19/article/viewFile/678/966

early demonstrations, 1877, london..

'the voices seemed to come struggling up from the underworld' a comment that seemed appropriate both to the uncanny nature of the technology and to a poem ( played back, by tennyson) that alludes to the slaughter of soldeirs during the Crimean War full article here http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/index.php/19/article/viewFile/678/966 "Far from disguising the fact of mediation, demonstrations flaunted it"