Comments on: Camp Cotton, Texas 8/19/1916 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/camp-cotton-texas-8191916/ Letters Home from a Yankee Doughboy 1916-1919 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:22:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: worldwar1letters http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/camp-cotton-texas-8191916/#comment-33 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:22:28 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=152#comment-33 The “talk machine” was a phrase used for the graphophone which was an early version of the phonograph patented by Alexander Graham Bell that had both recording and playback capabilities. Check out the page on “Sam’s References Explained” for more info on this and other references in his writings.

Rich

]]> By: leftywritey http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/camp-cotton-texas-8191916/#comment-30 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:39:32 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=152#comment-30 I like Sam. I can “see” his thoughts, (don’t know how else to put it) in the memory chains he writes out, and I can hear the music.

Talking machine? Is that the telephone?

Em

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