This is sound recorded in my home using a tabletop microphone in March 2014. This audio is for the purposes of demonstrating how to upload audio to an html article in Open Journal Systems.

Tabletop - Microphone

Transcription 

“It may appear presuming to some, that I should engage in pursuits of this nature; but averse from indolence, and having much leisure, my mind led me to this mode of amusement (dying and making cloth and doing experiments with cylinder and in the open air) which I found entertaining, and will I hope be thought inoffensive by the liberal and the learned. But censure is perhaps inevitable: for some are so ignorant, that they grow sullen and silent, and are chilled with horror at the sight of anything that nears the semblance of learning, in whatever shape it may appear; and should be the spectre appear in the shape of a woman, the pangs which they suffer are truly dismal."

Excerpt from the introduction
Fulhume, Elizabeth Mrs. (1810) An Essay on Combustion, with a view to a new art of dying and painting, wherein the phlogistic and antiphlogistic hypotheses are proved erroneous. The First American Edition. Philadelphia, CA: Printed by James Humphreys.




Monika Sengul-Jones