[Catalist] First Edison Phonograph in WA

[Richard Rennie]

Before there was Scitech. Even before the 1955  GMH “Previews of Progress” science stage shows, there was Professor Archibald’s travelling science and technology stage show. 

In 1891 Archibald came to WA and gave numerous public shows. Advertisements read:

Pro. DOUGLAS ARCHIBALD, M.A., Oxon,
will deliver an intensely interesting
LECTURE.
and
EXHIBIT THE INCREDIBLE CAPABILITIES OF
EDISON’S
ASTOUNDING TALKING MACHINE
The PHONOGRAPH

Archibald would give a lecture explaining the Science, Technology, construction and “final grand consummation of Edison’s greatest work, using several lifelike magic lantern slides”.  

Now:

On May 29 at 2 pm in the Wireless Hill Museum in Ardross there will be a free public presentation titled:

Professor Archibald and the First Phonograph in WA.
Hear the true story of the first Edison Phonograph demonstrated in Western Australia by Professor Douglas Archibald. Hear a re-creation of a speech by John Forrest, recorded by Archibald in 1891, and played live on an Edison cylinder Phonograph.

Presented by the Vintage Wireless and Gramophone Club of WA
in support of the new 
RADIOSONIC Exhibition 
(The First 50 years of the Wireless and the Gramophone in WA)
in the Wireless Hill Museum. Off Almondbury Road, Booragoon.






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