“The inventor struggled, through successive designs using a box, bellows, vibrating reed, stoppers and a leather bag, to make his machine speak. Each time, its idiot leathery mouth yammered, and nothing remotely human came out.”
From 'The Twittering Machine' - Richard Seymour

YouTube video by Deutsches Museum Nachbau des Kempelenschen Sprechapparats

The first speaking machine (Sprechmaschine) developed in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen. An attempt to produce a "mechanical equivalent of lungs, vocal cords, lips, teeth - which produces the acoustically rich, subtle and varied set of sounds known as the human voice." (The Twittering Machine)

I in the sky

I absolutely love this correlation they make between the cost of living and ladders

Business or pleasure or pleasure or business or business or pleasure // from Start the Revolution Without Me 😊

( first post - figuring out how this works)