Historical Resources

Audio Recordings

• The Website First sounds concentrates on the world's oldest sound recordings.
• One of the firsts political speeches recorded on an Edison's phonograph cylinder was delivered by the german kaiser Wilhelm ll in 1904.
• The Phonogram archives of the University of Zurich contains dialectological sound recordings of all four Swiss national languages.
• The Hegedüs Archives in Budapest contain recordings of various dialectal speech samples (spontaneous speech, storytelling, rune saying, etc) from the 1940s.



Video Recordings

Some short videp clips on reolucas of von Kempelene's speaking machine:

• Saarbrücken
• York



Scientific Texts

• Helmont, F. M. 1667. Alphabeti vere Naturalis Hebraici Brevissima Delineatio: Quae simul Methodum suppeditat, iuxta quam qui surdi nati sunt sic informari possunt, ut non alios saltem loquentes intelligant, sed & ipsi ad sermonis usum perveniant. Sulzbach: Lichtenthaler. PDF of the original book
  
• Kratzenstein, Chr. G. 1781. Tentamen resolvendi problema ab academia scientiarum imperiali petropolitana an annum 1780 publice propositum.PDF of the original book
  
• Kempelen, W. 1791. Wolfgang von Kempelen k. k. wirklichen Hofraths Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache nebst Beschreibung seiner sprechenden Maschine. Wien: Degen.PDF of the original book Transliterated and commented new edition in German and English
  
• Menzerath, P. & de Lacerda, A. 1933. Koartikulation, Steuerung und Lautabgrenzung. Berlin/Bonn: Dümmler.PDF of the original book

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