“This high-tech sociolinguistic experiment was conducted at the Lab on the evening of December 4, 1974. Donald Sherman, who has Moebius Syndrome and had never ordered a pizza over the phone before, used a system designed by John Eulenberg and J. J. Jackson incorporating a Votrax voice synthesizer, a product of the Federal Screw Works Co. of Troy, Michigan.”
Fascinerende en ontroerende televisie, de eerste pogingen om iemand die niet kan praten een telefoongesprek te laten voeren middels electronica.
Youtu.be/94d_h_t2QAA (via BoingBoing, video na de klik)
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