The First Phonogramic Poem, “The Phonograph’s Salutation”
Horatio Nelson Powers recorded his poem “The Phonograph’s Salutation,” spoken from the perspective of the phonograph, on 16 June 1888. Powers’s cylinder recording was sent to George Edward Gouraud from 
New York to England.
Image: Horatio Nelson Powers. “Phonogram from Horatio Nelson Powers to George Edward Gouraud, Thomas Alva Edison, June 16th, 1888.” _Edison Papers Digital Edition_. 7 Nov. 2019.
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