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| Jack Stanley, Historian | ||
BACKGROUND: Jack has worked tirelessly to bring awareness to Menlo Park and to the field of pioneer recorded sound. He worked at The Edison National Historic Site in West Orange, New Jersey, USA from 1993 till 1996. While there he did extensive research and would often spend the night at Edison’s Laboratory reading through many of Edison’s own books. He also studied and research Edison’s collection of private books. Many of which were filled with marginalia. Having much of the materials available for him and putting in the many hours day and night Jack did in 3 years what usually take the normal researcher 10 or more years to do. Jack also copied by hand the recording log books for the Edison Company. He spent many years interviewing everyone whom he could find who had worked with Thomas Edison. He was lucky enough to spend a number of years interviewing Theodore Edison - he was Edison's youngest son. |
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| RECORDING PROJECTS: Jack started the Thomas A. Edison Historic Recording Project in 1999. This unique recording project records people who have influenced the 20th century and the world. The recordings are made onto original Edison wax recording cylinders by using the same process of recording that Thomas Edison used. The project has been honored all over the world and contains some of histories most famous voices. Such as President Gerald R. Ford, Senator Bob Dole, Gov. Thomas Kean, Mayor Edward I Koch, Walter Cronkite, Buzz Aldrin, Isaac Stern, Jerome Hines, Robert Merrill, Mickie Rooney, Peter Jennings, Charles Osgood, Joe Franklin, June Lockhart, Eddie Bracken, Franco Correlli, Celeste Holm and many more. | ||
| TELEVISION APPEARANCES: He has appeared on The History Channel in many programs, CBS Good Morning, ABC News with Peter Jennings, NBC News, many programs on PBS, Discovery (represented Thomas Edison on The Hundred Greatest Americans), and Local programs in the areas where he may be. He has also been interviewed for programs on Edison for TV broadcast in Germany, Japan, Russia, Korea and China. | ||
| GUEST SPEAKER: Jack has served as a historical consultant for many books, magazine articles, and television programs. He is a sought after speaker at colleges, museums and historic functions. He has been to and met with staff of many museums from New Zealand to California. He was the featured speaker at the Ventura County Museum of History and Art in 2004. The event was a great success and there were in excess of 4,000 people there. He also conducted a program at the New England Conservatory of Art in 2005. | ||
These days when you think of Thomas Edison and want to know him more, There is but one person to think of Jack Stanley. Who after 30 years of research is truly one of the worlds leading authorities on Edison, sound recording, and technology of the early 20th century. You can read his blog at www.edisoneffect.blogspot.com It's name is phonographically yours. |
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