[78-L] Tinfoil (was: Sound for early silent films Was: what awhiner!)

[AllenAmet at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/18/2010 2:06:02 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
stevenc at interlinks.net writes:

Note  that "tinfoil" (tin foil!) is NOT the thin aluminum material we now
call  "tinfoil!" It seems to have been thin (but NOT paper-thin!) sheets
of  actual tin...


actually with a substantial amount of lead foil included (according to the  
original patent). For a short time, we gave a small original sample of 1878 
 phonographic foil with PHP.
 
Allen
 _www.phonobooks.com_ (http://www.phonobooks.com)