Image: Conversatione of the Royal Society of Victoria
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Description: Wood engraving published in The illustrated Australian news, depicting a public demonstration of the phonograph at the Society's annual conversazione on 8 August, 1878, along with a range of other new inventions, including the microphone. The phonograph was first demonstrated in Australia on 14 June, 1878 to a meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria by the Society's Honorary Secretary, Alexander Sutherland, who published "The Sounds of the Consonants, as Indicated by the Phonograph" in the Society's journal in November that year. This image depicts Sutherland demonstrating the phonograph to guests of the Society at the conversazione (top left).
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