Thomas Edison built and sold about 500 dolls back in 1890. Now, new technology has made hearing their supercreepy voices possible for the first time in decades. (Thanks, technology.) ...

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Visitors at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park can hear newly-restored Edison talking dolls. They are the stuff of nightmares. This story originally aired May 5 on All Things Considered.

Edison first conceived of his more high-tech talking dolls in 1878 when he invented the cylinder phonograph -- the earliest commercial method of sound recording and playback.

The 1888 cylinder record was a prototype for a talking doll designed by Thomas Edison. History. Through The Static, ... "It's a really interesting time period because the phonograph was brand new, ...

Back in 1890, Thomas Edison gave us some of the world's first talking dolls. ... Fabris says Edison was, for the first time, trying to market the then-brand-new wax cylinder phonograph for people to ...

Thomas Edison built and sold about 500 dolls back in 1890. Now, new technology has made hearing their supercreepy voices possible for the first time in decades. (Thanks, technology.) ...