Padova Teatro Garibaldi In Via Pedrocchi Seconda Ed Ultima Produzione Del Celebre E Tanto

by Joseph Faber

$1,250 · Offered by Martayan Lan

This provincial illustrated broadside, issued by the Teatro Garibaldi in Padova in 1877, announces a presentation of Professor Joseph Faber’s “talking machine” (“macchina parlante”), an ingenious human-like automaton that represented one of the earliest attempts to synthesize and reproduce human speech and that fascinated Alexander Melville Bell, a Scottish professor..... More

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