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Lincoln's voice

weight

2

value

$5

quests

Lincoln's Profit Margins

base id

00028ee6

Lincoln's voice is found in the Museum of History Offices. It is located in the Library (the 2-story room with the turret), upstairs, on a desk to the left of the hole blown in the main room up there.

CharacteristicsEdit

The object itself is a phonautograph, the earliest known recording device invented by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857.^[1] Unlike Edison's phonograph invented years later in 1877, the phonautograph was only designed to transcribe sound waves for visual analysis, and incapable of playing back a recording.

Hannibal Hamlin or Leroy Walker will give the players character 50 caps for the device. 100 caps with a successful speech check. Also, Abraham Washington will pay 60 caps, or 120 after a successful speech check.

NotesEdit

Though it no longer serves any purpose, this item is still found in the game files for Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenesEdit

This is a reference to a legend that such a recording was actually made of Lincoln's voice in 1863 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the inventor of the phonautograph.^[2] Since the story did not appear until the 1960s, its authenticity is questionable.

GalleryEdit

ReferencesEdit

[0] Oldest Recording Unveiled, Pre-dates Edison on the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences blog.

[1] The "Lost" Tracing of Lincoln's Voice

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