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Inspired by Her Voice
“I get chills upon hearing her voice for us today!”
Isabelle Skinner, CEO of the International Council of Nurses Prophetic for our 'Legacy of Light' project to remember Florence Nightingale with an Independent Feature Film, Transmedia Campaign and TV Series, her actual voice calls for us hear to her today.
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On June 30, 1890, 12 years after Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, his assistant in London, Colonel George Gouraud, made a recording of Nightingale's voice at her home on South Street. Her words call to future listeners and reveal that her Crimean War experiences were never far from her mind and heart.
Fortunately, a copy of this 'sound-autograph' survives at the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, New Jersey and in the National Sound Archive at the British Library in London, UK.
Fortunately, a copy of this 'sound-autograph' survives at the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, New Jersey and in the National Sound Archive at the British Library in London, UK.
Credits:
Image:
Nightingale portrait, the Wellcome Trust, accessed from Wikimedia, used with Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recording:
Accessed and edited from YouTube.
References:
Florence Nightingale: Mystic, Visionary, Healer' by Barbara M. Dossey, pages 398-399.
'Recording History: The British Record Industry, 1888-1931' by Peter Martland, pages 37-38.
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