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Leslie J. Newville
Best known for a concise history of sound technology, this writer explored how Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory helped turn the phonograph into a practical recording machine. Later in life, he became an Eastern Orthodox priest known as Father Archimandrite Jerome.
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About the author
Leslie J. Newville is associated with Development of the Phonograph at Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory, a Smithsonian-related historical study that traces Bell and his collaborators' work on early sound recording. Project Gutenberg lists this as his only book, and the text itself says he wrote it while attached to the office of the curator of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum.
Available catalog and library sources suggest that Newville later became Father Archimandrite Jerome, an Eastern Orthodox priest. A memorial record identifies him as Leslie Jerome Newville, born on January 10, 1930, in Barron County, Wisconsin, and died on August 21, 2010, in Prairie Farm, Wisconsin.
His writing is valued mainly for making a specific chapter of phonograph history approachable: the move from Edison's tinfoil machine toward the wax-recording innovations developed by Bell's Volta Laboratory team.