Episode 10 – Gladstone and the Undead Stenographer

January 27, 2016 Ramsey

The show is on the road again! This episode is mostly about Edison’s somewhat doomed attempt to market the phonograph in the UK as a business dictation machine in the 1890s. The discussion includes: a recording of William Gladstone’s voice, the ‘I’m not quite dead yet’ death of stenography, and brief looks at the histories of headphones (via the stethoscope) and the jukebox.