Voice Recording of Kaiser Franz Joseph I about the Phonograph (English and German Subtitles.)

Kaiser Franz Joseph I was the Emperor of Austria/Austria Hungary, and King of Hungary from 1848, until his death in 1916 at 86 years old during the First World War. This recording was taken on a wax cylinder in 1900 at the World’s Fair in Paris, as Franz Joseph Speaks of the Invention of the Phonograph.
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