Ansonia Clock Co.

[Juanma]

Los empresarios Daniel Somers y Henry Davies de la Ansonia Clock Co. firmaron un acuerdo con Edison para la explotación de un reloj parlante que anunciara las horas. Alguien podría proporcionar alguna imagen de estos "relojes parlantes"

 

Entrepreneurs Daniel Somers and Henry Davies of Ansonia Clock Co. signed an agreement with Edison for the exploitation of a talking clock announcing the hours. Someone could provide some picture of these "talking clocks."

[Dan]

I saw this on E bay it’s not an Ansonia but a Hiller,  it has some nice pictures of the mechanism. Probably the same .

Dan

[phonogfp]

The 1910 Hiller is an entirely different, and much later mechanism than would have resulted from the 1878 agreement between Edison and Ansonia. 

 

As far as is known for certain, nothing came of the Edison/Ansonia agreement.  Back in the mid-1990s, there were claims that the Lambert machine carrying a recording in lead was a prototype built at Edison's behest, because the recording contained the words, "One o'clock," "Two o'clock," "Three o'clock..."  In the end, it was debatable whether the existing machine was an 1878 model with recording, or the 1896 duplicate Lambert testified to have made after destroying the original.  In any event, any connection between Lambert and Ansonia was not verifiable.   

 

George P.

[Juanma]

Muchas gracias por responder, alguien conoce en todo caso, alguna publicación que trate sobre este tema?