The Electric Tongue! 1933

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Titles read: "The Electric Tongue! Here's the latest Scientific marvel, an instrument which records the presence of acid, by sound!"

New York, United States of America.

President OH Caldwell of the New York Electrical Society stands before a complicated-looking machine and explains...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43275
Sort Number:
PT 156
Time in/Out:
01:36:21:00 / 01:37:37:00
Canister:
PT 156
Film ID:
1305.18
Issue Date:
20/03/1933

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