But surrounded by family and friends at balmoral sydney morse declared victoria unbent enough to speak a few words in the general direction of the graphophone 's mouthpiece .
Plummer had described being offered a " wax cylinder " containing queen victoria 's voice . But tritton knew that morse had made his recording on a graphophone which used a wax-coated cardboard cylinder .
His solicitor sydney morse - an early investor in the british graphophone company - had royal connections .
他的律师西德尼莫尔斯(sydneymorse)英国格拉福风公司的早期投资人同皇室关系密切。
A letter in the science museum 's files noted that w. s. plummer the museum 's expert on early recording technology had rejected the offer of the graphophone which was missing " several vital parts . "
Morse operated the treadle the graphophone was not electrically powered-and on his return to london delightedly showed henry edmunds the product of his labors : " a small black cylinder with a few black spiral lines traced upon it containing the record of the voice and speech of the celebrated queen . "