Talking dolls were ‘straight out of a nightmare’
1 After developing the phonograph in 1877, Edison was searching for new inventions in which the technology of recording and playing sound could be used. One possibility was talking dolls, encouraging Edison to implant a miniature version of his phonograph in children’s dolls with wooden limbs and metal bodies. Actresses were hired to lend their voice to famous children’s rhymes such as “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”.
But the
