I got chills listening to this. This was one of the greatest women of our time and to actually have her voice recorded from so long ago amazes me. As a nurse I feel privileged to follow in her teachings.
Indeed the grand lady with a lamp 🔦 guiding all her Crimea war comrades home! A wondrous example of selflessness humility and compassion ❤ her spirit lives on in the countles nurses thatchave sincd followed her ..Cheers from.Salt Lake City!
m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qke-zjjYssM.html This is a veteran of the battle speaking. He also uses a bugle that was used at Waterloo to play the cavalry calls he made at Balaclava. So that’s a man in 1890, who was at Balaclava in 1853 blowing a bugle that was carried in 1815... being listened to by us in 2019.
There is a really interesting vid that someone took pics of verterans from the revolutionary war and animated them and gave them voices. It is amazing. Some born well over 200 years
I just realized something: this is almost 126 years old. What if, 126 years from now, in 2142, someone finds the things WE post on RU-vid.That would be weird.
"God bless my dear old comrades of Balaclava and bring them safe to shore." That right there gave me goosebumps all over. Hearing her voice 133 years after that recording is just amazing.
Wow.... I can't believe I just heard THE Florence Nightingale.. She sounds like such a sweet and compassionate woman.. This is AMAZING, I am at AWE.. Thank you for posting this!
1890 guys, 1890! They barely have any electronics back then. Light-bulbs were just recently invented then. This is so amazing. An invaluable find for me today.
Oldest recording of a human voice was 1860, however it couldn't be played back until digital technology made it possible, as it was a wave form etched in soot! First commercially available playable records came out in 1880s
@@kiranolan7104 On July 4, 1826, former Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who were once fellow Patriots and then adversaries, die on the same day within five hours of each other.
What a lovely voice! Thanks to the great invention, Ms. Florence Nighingale seems closer to me in spite that her voice was recorded more than 120 years ago.
Note the somewhat muffled sound, this is characteristic of what are known as white wax cylinders (which were white) in contrast to the later brown wax cylinders which, unlike white wax cylinders were prone to mold. These cylinders were made of ceresin which is a hard type of paraffin wax. The recording was originally made by T. Edison's representative in London in 1890. These and other late 1880's and 1890's white wax cylinders were dubbed by electronic playback to a 78 disk in 1939, a picture of the label of this disk is shown with the Nightingale recording presented here.
This means that Florence Nightingale was in her 70s when she recorded this message. Still her voice sounds quite young for her age back then. This recording is a historic treasure. Thanks for posting this clip.
"When İ am no longer even a memory - just a name...bring them safe to shore..." Humble to the end and ever thinking of the troops. You are not just a name, we will never forget you. May you rest in peace.
Thank God someone had the fore thought to record this amazing woman and it will be available to listen to for the next 100's of years to come. I was spell bound!
I just watched the wonderful 1985 movie about her on BYU channel starring Jaclyn Smith. What a thrill to actually hear her voice. It's amazing that she lived to 90 for those times, especially when she was in the midst of disease and horribly unsanitary conditions. She must have had a very strong constitution.
She was against toxic poisons and into good hygiene practices and sanitation, good clean ventilation coming in one side and out the other, good organic wholesome food and clean water. She wasn’t quick to turn to toxic drugs claiming a good meal and sanitation practices ensure good health with sunlight and clean water. She also went into minute detail such as informing us in her nursing notes not to whisper near an ill person explaining the exhaustion of mind this can cause a patient in worrying about what’s being said. She is a distant relative of mine and I believe in all these points too and am against toxic poisons being injected into us or given in tablet forms etc except for absolute necessary ones. Our connection is explained here… ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qiQT7CyQEU8.htmlsi=NnljV6oslSI-5GZV
This is so cool! I always wonder what people sounded like and spoke like in the past, if they had completely different mannerisms and languages. It's really interesting to hear what people sounded like so long ago.
Dear Florence Nightingale, I read about you when I was in Class 3 (3rd grade) in a history book in South Herald English School, Khulna, Bangladesh. It is certainly a great moment for me to hear your voice for the first time in 2020 AD. Although it’s sad that we had missed each other only by little shy of a century, but by the time you find this writing probably it would be much longer than a century. Till then, Rest In Peace.
A heroic figure for me. Florence was a titanic human being. Along with pioneering nursing, she was a social reformer of relentless hands-on devotion, she was a theologian of remarkable depth and originality. A profoundly intelligent and compassionate soul. She literally lived to make the dark world a place of light in every way. As famous as she is, she still does not have the recognition she deserves.
I couldn't agree more. I'm just nearing the end of a monumental biography of her by Mark Bostrdge and I am in awe of the woman. The reality of her life and achievement is so much greater than the legend of the Lady With The Lamp.
You know what I love about this is that she knows how important she is to history because of what she accomplished and contributed in her life and was able to recognize that and have that recognition among people of her time while she was alive.
I am italian and my girlfriend is from Florence. We managed to find the little villa where Florence was born just outside Florence in the middle of a pleasant zone. I already knew about this recording because a part of it was used in 1968 by the U.S. acid folk band Pearls Before Swine on their mesmerizing second concept album "Balaklava".
recorded only one day and a hundred years before i was born lol!! but for real its crazy somehing this old still exists and is preserved on youtube for many years to come.
Wow,I never thought I'd ever hear her voice in my life ... It's life changing FN was my hero since I was a kid reading my ladybird book 'Lady with the lamp' Thanks ever so for uploading :-)
THANK YOU, transformingArt, for providing this. It is the capstone of my reading Bostridge's 672-page book, "Florence Nightingale - The Making of an Icon."
Some captions if you couldn’t read the cursive, numbers are written out and it might not be entirely accurate. “As Florence Nightingale, health admin. To thy the pleasure, eighteen hundred and ninety. “When I am no longer even a memory-just a name, I hope my voice may perpetuate the great work of my life. God bless my dear old comrades of Balaclava and bring them safe to shore. “Lawrence, thank you.”
This is really cool! She was so humble and what she didn’t know when she says, when I am no longer even a memory - just a name... she will always be a memory. ❤️
When she spoke of the Balaclava comrades , she refers to time she was working as a nurse in the Crimean war, during the battle of balaclava. Also i find it very fascinating that this recording is saved, i wish i could hear the sounds of the streets and markets from 150 years ago or even older, in 1890 van Gogh was still alive.
wow! it's amazing that we can still hear her voice 120 years later! she sounds kinda like my great-grandmother, but this was recorded before great-grandma was even born.
Je ne me souviens plus où je lisais qu'à l'époque des compositeurs passés soit par exemple de Haendel à Fauré, ces derniers écoutaient les auteurs, les poètes ou les comédiens déclamer un texte pour ensuite le mettre en musique. Par exemple, les récitatifs des opéras étaient déclamer puis mis en musique. Ceci concorde parfaitement avec l'extrait audio que nous écoutons. Mme. Nightingale, l'auteure, lit son texte avec plusieurs nuances, hauteurs, silences et emphases sur certains mots. C'est très musicale. Une inspiration pour les compositeurs de cette époque!
Thanks. For years I've been trying to figure out what she was saying on this recording and you provided the text. (This recording was used in 1968 on Pearls Before Swines' Balaclava album.)
ooh it has been cleaned up, the original recording is disturbed several times(as expected)but as you may see she had a very good property of speech so its no wonder that the clean up was much easier(even in the original recording you can make out almost all the lines of what she s saying ); 1890s recordings, as stunning as it might sound, there s several recordings which have an amazing quality for being so old(even without being cleaned up)
We in India learn about her in school. I am 47 years of age now and still remember the lesson about Florance. I have goosebumps listening to her voice. Great woman of her times. I wish we had some recordings of our Sikh leaders of the time but technology took its time to come to India back then. May her soul rest in peace.
Hi, Parminder. I have been to your wonderful country many times and spent two years there during the pandemic. I am just reaching the end of a biography of Florence Nightingale and one of the things that struck me was, in an Imperial and class-bound age, her long, deep and genuine concern and work for the poor of India: something that continued almost until her death.
@@ParminderSingh-ft3cc There was poverty in India long before the British arrives and there is still poverty in India now, a long time after they left.
@@ParminderSingh-ft3cc I know my history reasonably well. I also know that history as it is taught in India can be extremely biased, politicised and very lacking in nuance or objectivity. I would add that before British rule, India didn't even exist as a unified entity. I suggest you try reading some history yourself including some that does not accord with your own prejudices.
Wow! How proud you must be. For the most part,unless you go to nursing school, you're taught very little if anything about her. The contibutions she made are innumerable. Too bad she does not get the recognition she is owed.
Florences father was a Mr Shore who changed his name upon an inheritance from an uncle called Mr nightingale so whilst your relatives could be descendants of uncle nightingale , neither yourself nor anyone else are decended directly from someone who had no children. Florence had no children.
On second thoughts, why would Florences father have inherited From his great uncle if said Great uncle had an heir of his own blood? So I sumise that Uncle Nightingale had no baby Nightingales from which your cousins couod have descended,
She was the first person to ever use statistics to back up her work that cleanliness saved lives and turned into evidence based practice. She catapulted nursing into a genuine profession, whereas before they got anybody off the street.
I love all these old recordings even to hear the voice of Florence Nightingale is really amazing wow I think she could’ve recorded a lot of stuff when she was alive. I love all record of technology even going back to the very first wax cylinder. I would love to hear the original first recording that was ever made by Thomas Alva Edison that would be fantastic
What is amazing and very humbling is that her thoughts were with her comrades so long ago. Once part of a band of brothers in War they are in your heart forever.
Florence Nightingale was famous in her own day, not for nursing at the Crimea, but for campaigns for improving the conditions of the army - proper supplies, clothing, living conditions in general. The establishment of training for nurses in England, and upgrading the status of nurse to a respectable profession, was a result of her work to improve the treatment of wounded soldiers.
I’m hearing the voice of an 198 year old woman, through a medium, on a device, powered by a concept, that she could not begin to comprehend. What a time to be alive.
Blessed.You have guided this profession in the right way unfortunately it wasn't enough to make it a Professional Profession.With Degrees,Research we are now heading into the most top Profession of the centuries to come
@ceredigio Thanks for your information. I am aware about the 'Alternate take' and has the latest transfer done by British Library as well, but never actually heard the alternate recording. Thanks for posting this.
