A Good Machine
Posted by Clara A. N. Whitney
October 08, 1978
Tuesday October 8, 1878
(At a meeting of the Asiatic Society)
"Then afterwards Mr. Ewing, Mr. Dixon's countryman and friend, exhibited a phonograph which was very curious. He would shout a sentence through a tube and in a few minutes the machine repeated the same sentence with the same intonation, only in a 'squeeky, nasal American twang,' as the polite professor remarked, while Mr. Milne thought it had a strong Scotch accent! It was a very interesting machine and talked very well--for a machine. A prima donna sang in it. A Japanese shouted int it, and Mr. Dixon informed it in a high-pitched voice that it was a 'yoroshii kikai' [good machine]."
Posted by Clara A. N. Whitney
October 08, 1978
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