Talking Machines and Illusions
'How Fryer Bacon made a Brasen head to speake' - The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon (London: G. Purslowe for F. Grove, 1627) (from James Eason's Thomas Browne site)
'Whether material statues may speak by any artifical way', Giambattista della Porta, Natural Magick (London: for Thomas Young and Samuel Speed, 1658), Bk 19 ch 1 John
Wilkins's Talking Statue (1654) John Buddle's
Speaking Head (1778) A Speaking
Figure (1789) The
Invisible Girl - Handbill (1804?) Anthropoglossos
(1864) Professor
Faber's Euphonia Thomas Hood, 'To The
Invisible Girl' (1867) Florence McLandburgh, The
Automaton Ear (1876) Machine
Parlante (Magasin Pittoresque,
1882) |