Talking machine.- Die Sprechende Maschine...Joseph Faber, printed broadside in German, 2 contemporary newspaper clippings tipped onto fore-edge, very short tear to fore-edge without loss, light spotting and damp-staining, light central fold, 264 x 207mm., [Vienna], [?1840]; and other printed playbills in German relating to automata or mechanical theatre, v.s. (6)
⁂ Austrian inventor Joseph Faber reportedly spent over 25 years developing his talking machine, later known as the Euphonia. It was constructed of several different mechanisms and instruments: a piano, bellows, and a mechanical replica of the human throat and vocal organs. The device was exhibited in 1845 in Philadelphia and in 1846 in London's Egyptian Hall.
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