One of the first recordings ever made a full ten years before Thomas Edison patented his gramophone. This German language cylinder documents the sounds of lambs, cows, cuckoos, and other fauna.

First sound effect record of Big Ben Striking 10:30, 10:45, and 11:00, made by technicians at Edison House, London.

An unidentified actor reads an eyewitness account of the events of December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk N.C. when the Wright brothers tested their first airplane.

A humorous story related by Edison. Introduced by Walter H. Miller.

Thomas Edison greets 49 young men competing for college scholarships.

Fiftieth anniversary of laying of the Atlantic underwater cable. Edison reviews history of electrical communication at opening of Electrical Exposition at Madison Square Garden, New York City. Recorded by G. Robert Vincent from an Edison Laboratories recording of 1908.

Thomas Edison talks about the contributions of 19th century scientists to the knowledge of electricity. Recorded by Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv 1908.

Thomas Edison reviews World War I and calls for Americans not to forget.

Astronaut John Glenn, in Cape Canaveral, FL., makes remarks and answers questions from the press after orbiting the earth three times. He discusses malfunctions, his manual reentry, the appearance of stars and the earth, depth perception, and other topics.

Crawford H. Greenewalt, president of DuPont, introduces Dr. William Davidson, Dr. Donald Lockridge, Dr. Arthur Compton, Dr. Enrico Fermi, Mr. Jocelyn, Dr. Charles Allen Thomas, Dr. Wallace, and Dr. Walter Zinn. Fermi then describes how the reaction worked and how it was controlled. A panel discussion follows. Topics include: industrial applications, applications besides power generation, power, making nuclear power commercially viable, breeder reactors, plutonium and its manufacture, and security.

The discovery of the North Pole with Robert Peary. Victor Talking Machine Co. Matrix C-8528-4. This is the opening of a speech which traces the history of Arctic exploration up to the point when his own adventures began.

Dash to the South Pole. Shackleton describes the trip and exploration of Antarctica, loyalty of his men, and reads a poem on exploration.

Description of a dash for the South Pole.

Ernest O. Lawrence receives the third annual Enrico Fermi Award. In an interview, he discusses the safety of nuclear testing and stresses the use of atomic power for peaceful power generation.

Buckminster Fuller gives a speech at the AMA entitled, "What Quality of Environment Do We Want?" He begins by speaking of the earth as if it were a spaceship, with the sun being the closest "gas station," the next nearest being 100,000 times as far away. He reviews a few ways of looking at what we do to our environment, speaking of combustion engines, the role of television in development, the terminology of the past (and unlearning the misinformation that goes along with it), and the organization of cities. He winds the speech up with a review of the work of Dr. Benjamin Bloom of Chicago.

Enrico Fermi in undated photo.

Ernest Orlando Lawrence, Enrico Fermi and Isidor Isaac Rabi. Nobel Laureates who worked on or consulted on the Manhattan Project. Photo undated.

A photograph of prolific inventor, Thomas Edison.