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

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Jeff Lichtman" <jeff at swazoo.com>
>>actually with a substantial amount of lead foil included (according to the
>>original patent).
>>Allen
> Does this mean that phonographic tinfoil was actualy close to being 
> solder?
>
Quite close...except that neither the "soldering iron" (in ANY form) nor
the electronic devices requiring soldered connections of wires had at
that point been invented...?! "Soldering" was in those early days a
convenient and inexpensive method to fasten two metal objects
together...it wasn't until the end of WWI that those "objects" were
wires...?!

Steven C. Barr