[78-L] Earliest born to record (was Engraved records)

[AllenAmet at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/14/2008 2:14:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
saag at telia.com writes: (reply below)

Mike  Biel has pointed out that Hungarian politician Lajos Kossuth, born 
1802,  was the oldest.  Here's from  Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_Kossuth

> In  1890, a delegation of Hungarian pilgrims in Turin recorded a short 
>  patriotic speech delivered by the elderly Lajos Kossuth. The original  
recording on two wax cylinders for the Edison phonograph survives to  this day, 
although barely audible due to excess playback and unsuccessful  early 
restoration attempts. Lajos Kossuth is the earliest born person in  the world who has 
his voice preserved.



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if one casts the net wide enough to include a known recording, but now  
physically lost, Horatio Perry, born in 1790 takes the cake. His brown wax  
cylinder words (1890) survive only as a typescript, recently  published...
 
Allen
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