This is a fantastic story about an archivist at the Schenectady Museum, Chris Hunter, whose curiosity about thirteen undocumented film canisters took him on a journey that led to the discovery of a recording of a Thomas Edison radio address that had been locked away for over eighty years.  Along the way, the technical gurus he recruited to help him, John Schneiter and Ross DeMuth, had to basically re-invent a 1920s-vintage tape playing technology.

Listen to Edison’s voice here: