Agnes Cowper in Liverpool - late 19th Century
from A backward glance on Merseyside, page 41:
‘And still the wonders grew’; soon after [my first experience of the telephone, my brothers and I] listened for the first time to the phonograph. It is true that this invention had been exhibited a few years previously in crude, experimental form at the Royal Institute, London, about 1879, but it was not until some years later, and well into the ‘eighties, that it began to make its appearance as a product purchasable by the public. Its … more >>
cite as
Agnes Cowper, A backward glance on Merseyside, volume 2nd edition (Birkenhead, 1952), p. 41. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1530791228142 accessed: 14 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersUnspecified singing | performed by Christina Nilsson, Adelina Patti |
Experience Information
Date/Time | late 19th Century |
Medium | playback |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Thu, 05 Jul 2018 12:47:09 +0100
Approved on Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:51:07 +0100