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I'm David Hoffman, filmmaker, and I collected these clips because they give people a sense of what the 19 fifties was like at the time.

The person you're about to see the kid was truly a geek, and when I saw this clip the idea that you could talk into something and a typewriter key type, the letter was like We went to Mars.

Amazing.

This is a newsreel.

Take a look and see what you think and put yourself into the mindset of being a kid like me going to school and seeing this kid do what he did.

And with a boy on idea Onda Science Fair in New York City.

The boy was Victor Scheinman, 16 a senior at the New Lincoln School in the basement of his home, where in past years he built such devices as an Elektronik banjo and an amateur lie detector.

He tackled his still unnamed project microphone, would convert the letters into low voltage current electrical impulse, would type out the spoken letter, But would it work a.

A aye aye, aye, so far a success But what would he call it?

Envy.

Electro mechanical voice inscribe That was the name Victor had chosen as he exited.

Hey, hey.

Ah, boy And a challenge.

Victor Scheinman and M B.

Just one of 3000 students, boys and girls exhibiting at the New York Science Fair each had been challenging.

Each had met the challenge, Having done self, all would be better students.

First of all, the idea of a speaker speaking into a letter on a typewriter is an ancient idea now, but I want you to know one thing.

Sputnik happened to America on October 4th, 1957.

Within a year, America was focusing huge amounts of talent, not just gigs on science, on getting a man to the moon on miniaturization, on electronics on the Internet, which was created as a direct result of Sputnik and how it provoked America toe, look at science and believe in scientists.

President Eisenhower was the president at that time, and he led the effort to create science commissions, universities focusing on science, women in colleges, language labs in high school, special science programs in high school and so much more.

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David Hoffman, filmmaker Thank you.