Photo credit: NPS Title: Twinkle, twinkle little star (poem written by Jane Taylor) Record type: Edison Talking Doll cylinder, brown wax (production design) Recording date and location: c. February to May 1890, Edison Phonograph Works, West Orange, New Jersey From collection: Thomas Edison National Historical Park, National Park Service NPS object catalog number: EDIS 1263 Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated Historical Division catalog number: E-5772-1 Provenance of the cylinder: National Park Service museum curators first cataloged this cylinder in 1967, when it was found attached to a doll mechanism (catalog number EDIS 1262), located in an office room on the third floor of the Edison Laboratory. Specifications of the cylinder object: · Outside diameter: 3.0 inch · Width:0.55 inch · Groove type: Vertical ; square-cut. · Groove turns per inch: 65 TPI Source of the digital audio: The cylinder was digitized on August 27, 2014 at Northeast Document Conservation Center using IRENE-3D scanning technology. The requested video is no longer available.
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