The Phonogram (1902-11)

Page scan 0006 from The Phonogram

Record Details:

Title:
The Phonogram
Date:
1902-11
Volume:
The Phonogram (II), Issue 31
Leaf #:
0006
Language:
English
Subjects:
honograph,"Phonograph History, Thomas Edison","National Phonograph Company","Sound Recording History
Collection:
Recorded Sound
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
July 20, 2022
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MOULDING AND MAILING THE HUMAN VOICE. EACHING foreign languages with the aid of V I t the Phonograph is one of the most practical JJL-l ideas that is being popularized to-day and has - been made practical on a large scale within the last few months—only since the invention of a duplicating process for moulding the wax \ Records of a foreign tongue. You see the uK fellow wants the voice to be natural and life- jflk like, with none of those blasts that accom- panied the Phonograph before this moulded <■ Record came out * * II My friend's remark interested me in the [ possibilities of language teaching with the aid K of the Phonograph, and accordingly I remem- \ bered one of the most prominent institutions that do this teaching and planned to visit it. My trip took me to Scranton, Pa., the home of the International Correspondence Schools, and here I found a double brick house near the main college building given up to this new method of language instruction. Being prepared for a medley of foreign tongues, I was not sur- prised to find this house a veritable Tower of Babel. In every room were Phonographs, and seated in front of them were foreign instructors, who listened to recitations made by the students. The view I obtained gave me my first impression of the success of this plan. Here, actually, Copyright 1902, by R. C. Auld