Word: landfrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...static-filter that he invented let Vincent re-record with good clarity everything from William Jennings Bryan's cross-of-gold speech to Big Ben tolling in the 20th century to Robert E. Peary tersely describing his 1909 conquest of the North Pole. Eeriest of all: Trumpeter Kenneth Landfrey's hair-raising bugle call for the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854. Landfrey restaged it for Edison in 1890, using the same bugle that also screeched Wellington's troops on to victory at Waterloo...
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