Thomas Edison - Menlo Park

When you listen to this podcast you will learn about the many innovations at Menlo Park which affect our quality of life today. I had a lot of fun doing this Thomas Edison "mash-up" using MP3's from the Edisonia collection of the National Park Service:

http://www.nps.gov/edis/edisonia/sounds.html

The website for the Menlo Park museum is: http://www.menloparkmuseum.com

The Eastern European songs that I refer to in the podcast were collected by ethnomusicologists Zinovy Kiselgof and Moshe Beregovski and can be heard on the album: "Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys". For more information, visit http://www.klezmermountainboys.com

Music Credits:

The intro and trailer bumpers came from:
Collection: Popular Songs, Tin Pan Alley
Which switch is the switch, Miss, for Ipswich? - from "Rosy Rapture"
Performed by: Billy Murray
Composed by: David, Barnett, Darewski
Record format: Edison Diamond Disc
Matrix number: 4047-B-3-2
Recording date: 1915
Release number: 50293-R
Release date: December 1915
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 40585

The background music played during the narration came from:
Collection: Popular Instrumental, Ragtime
Flow gently sweet afton & Bonnie, sweet Bessie
Performed by: Robert Trucksess - American guitar
a.) Composed by: J.E. Spilman
b.) Composed by: J.L.B. Gilbert
Record format: Edison Diamond Disc
Matrix number: 8211-A-4-2
Recording date: September 12, 1921
Release number: 50994-R
Release date: August 1922
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 42253

Thomas Edison's voice came from:
Collection: Very Early Recorded Sound
Around the world on the phonograph
Spoken by: Thomas A. Edison
Record format: Edison yellow paraffine cylinder
Recording date: c. late October 1888
Location: West Orange, New Jersey or local vicinity
NPS object catalog number: EDIS 566
** Historical note: This is believed to be the earliest existing recording of Thomas Edison's voice.