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Inventors, Engineers & Historical Archives

Explore biographies, archival collections, interviews, and research resources highlighting the pioneers whose innovations shaped sound recording, cinema, broadcasting, and modern audio technology.

Andr- Charlin Site devoted to pioneering French inventor, engineer and designer, in French, English and Swedish.

Thomas Edison Papers Gateway to the mammoth Edison Papers Project, a work-in-progress cataloging and archiving the inventor-s legacy.  Huge on-line database of documents and text.

Edison via Library of Congress American Memory: “Inventing Entertainment” Gateway to Library of Congress- Edison holdings.

John Hilliard Section of Lansing Heritage site devoted to pivotal early cinema sound engineer and designer.

Interviews with John Herbert Orr and several of his associates Index *only* (no web-accessible content) of oral history and lecture recordings from Auburn University archives concerning magnetic tape pioneer.

 

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