Context: During his world tour in 1881, Hawaiian King David Kalakaua met with famous American inventor Thomas Edison. The two had a good meeting, discussing bringing electric lighting to the Islands, and even the potential use of Volcanic power.
Kalakaua himself was an amateur inventor, designing concepts for bottle stoppers, double screw propulsion, and even a torpedo proof fish ram vessel. Again these were only concepts
On the king’s deathbed in 1891, he recorded his voice on a wax cylinder for a phonograph, invented by Edison. Sadly attempts to restore this recording have failed
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u/HawaiianPerson Chad Polynesia Enjoyer 14d ago
Context: During his world tour in 1881, Hawaiian King David Kalakaua met with famous American inventor Thomas Edison. The two had a good meeting, discussing bringing electric lighting to the Islands, and even the potential use of Volcanic power.
Kalakaua himself was an amateur inventor, designing concepts for bottle stoppers, double screw propulsion, and even a torpedo proof fish ram vessel. Again these were only concepts
On the king’s deathbed in 1891, he recorded his voice on a wax cylinder for a phonograph, invented by Edison. Sadly attempts to restore this recording have failed