This is what Victorian people sounded like

This is what Victorian people sounded like

Hearing the Voices of Victorian IconsIn a previous video, we explored the oldest sounds ever captured—recordings made on Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s phonautograph and Thomas Edison’s early tinfoil phonograph. These inventions allowed voices from the past to survive long after the people themselves were gone.This time, we step into Victorian Britain, where Edison’s “perfected” phonograph sparked a craze to capture voices for posterity. Th…