Padova, Tip. Crescini, 1877.
Padova, Teatro Garibaldi in Via Pedrocchi… Seconda ed ultima produzione del celebre e tanto applaudito professore Faber americano, possessore della macchina parlante. La più ingegnosa invenzione del giorno….
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