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 UA-cam.That would be weird.
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!
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
m.ua-cam.com/video/Qke-zjjYssM/v-deo.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.
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!
"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.
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.
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 The recording was originally made by T. Edison's representative in London in 1890.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.
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.
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!
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.
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… ua-cam.com/video/qiQT7CyQEU8/v-deo.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.
"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.
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.
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.
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 :-)
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.
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".
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."
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.
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. ❤️
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.)
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!
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.
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.
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.”
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
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This hit straight to my heart and brought me to tears. It is an honor as a nurse to continue her work.
@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.
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.
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)
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
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 UA-cam.That would be weird.
Well, the odds of current recording devices and records surviving the end of humanity are not that great, really.
The odds are actually great, considering digital technology.
If anything, UA-cam will be all the proof that future generations will ever possibly need to euthanize their elders involuntarily.
Of course they will find it
They would be in a Battlefield.
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!
Of our time? How old are you!?
@@Skelanth721 shh, don’t question the wizened one
@@Skelanth721 130ish or smthn' LOL
@@Skelanth721😂
she was born in 1820... that means we are hearing a voice that dates back almost 200 years!
Born when the US only knew 4 Presidents and were electing a 5th (James Monroe)
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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
This was recorded during her elderly years.
It's 1890 so it's only 130 years old
200
Amazing. A voice from the Crimean War of the 1850s, recorded in 1890 and available for all to hear in 2016.
m.ua-cam.com/video/Qke-zjjYssM/v-deo.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.
I'm leaving a comment in the September of 2021. Five years after you left the original comment. Hope life is good.
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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!
You still at awe 8 years on?
@@zookeeperguy3249 Of course
What about 9 years on
@@Roblox-jy1bm Still same lol
@@MademoiselleOfFatimaGuadalupe 9 years and 10 months?
"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.
The fact there would be nearly 40 more years 'til the last veterans died, too
She will never fade from memory as long as nurses carry on her noble work. How humble she was.
"When I am no longer even a memory - just a name, I hope my voice may perpetuate the great work of my life."
Well, she got that spot on.
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.
the first recordings went back to the 1850s i think
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
oldest recording of a non-voice was in 1857...a segment of a coronet player
@@petehutchins7062 There's actually an older one and it's of a guitar. ua-cam.com/video/uRbIJc05QTA/v-deo.html
@@RetroFan Cool...just checked it out
i busts in tear...
our humble vocation....
her life's work....
Do you realize the voice you just heard was once a little girl in a time when people like Thomas Jefferson and John Adams still walked the earth? Wow.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams walked the earth over 100 years before this. So no, I don't think that would have been possible.
He said was a little girl when people like that walked the earth, not when this was record. Jeez, some people can’t just read these days!
@@matthewmcalister2165 yep. She was 6 years old when Adams and Jefferson died. She would have been old enough to read about it in the papers.
Most American comment i've ever seen. Yeesh.
How about the fact she was alive when George III was, and over 20 when the Duke of Wellington died.
@@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.
Mission accomplished, Nurse Nightingale! May you be resting in peace!
Your voice moved me to tears Miss Nightingale 125 years later
Ditto
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.
That's so cool!
She saved the lives of a lot of people just by cleaning hospitals to prevent infection, and she invented the polar area diagram. 'nuff said.
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.
Yeah, I've already managed to toss off to it.
I believe this was a point in her life when she was bediridden, suffering from depression, and unable to move because of some of the diseases she had.
Wow!
Yet she still lived for 20 more years after this recording and died at the ripe old age of 90.
Wow, that's an amazing recording from something so old! Good job ;)
How old do you think she was, my guess is 300.
didn’t think I’d see you here haha
This old recording is so cute! People like her are the ones who deserve their memories to last and become part of human history!
You can still hear that voice today if you get on the wrong side of some frosty, old, British battleaxe.
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!
Thank you so very much! What a joy to hear her voice! She inspired me to become an RN.
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.
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…
ua-cam.com/video/qiQT7CyQEU8/v-deo.htmlsi=NnljV6oslSI-5GZV
Very special. Kind of intense to be connected this close to history.
Frankly, one of the greatest human beings to have lived. Thank you for all your work Mrs Nightingale, and may you rest in peace.
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.
Bet she never thought in her wildest dreams that this recording would be heard by so many born long after she died and in such a way! ^_^
I am utterly fascinated with voices and pictures from before the 20th century...this is a treasure.
"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.
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.
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.
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 :-)
Glenn Johnson Amazing and incredible that we can hear this historical lady today in 2017.Preservation perfection!!Thank you indeed.
how lovely to hear one of my heroine's voices from so many years ago! Thank you for posting this!!
Very interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing. Wow. I never thought that I would hear this woman's voice.
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.
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".
Guys, we're hearing the voice of someone born in *1820*!
She sounded so nice, and her voice was so cute! I love you, Florence, thank you for inspiring so many women!
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."
If it weren't for the standards she set for nursing, hospitals across the country would have completely collapsed by now.
WOW. Just knowing that it was really her voice brings tears to my eyes. I never expected this, thank you!
As of right now we are hearing a person born 201 years ago
So cool!!! I love this. And discovered it in the 200th year anniversary of Florence Nightingale. Thank you for sharing it.
The world's most famous nurse was 70 in 1890 and she sounds real good. priceless and one of a kind.
She sounds like mrs bucket from keeping up appearences
i love history, and these recordings make me love it all the more because we are listening to voices of people without the use of modern technology...
Wow... weird feeling to listen to a voice.. so long gone.. whiped out by time.. Yet restored by the great work of an amazing man...
How absolutely amazing to hear a voice from over a century ago!
She's really an inspiration 🥺 Thank you so much.
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.
It's incredibly sad how many recordings are lost from that time. Both sound and film.
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. ❤️
Eighteen hundred and ninety.
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.)
Wow iv always imagined Florence nightingale sounding a certain way, this just blew me away and is totally different to what I imagined.. Fantastic
Thank-you for this!
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!
She lived up to 90yrs of age...
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.
Amazing. Thanks for posting.
She inspired me to become a nurse. What an amazing woman!
She sure did get her wish to have her voice heard. Wow, putting a voice to a 2-dimensional picture. Amazing technology.
this is great quality in comparison to other recordings of the era.
You should see Arthur Sullivan's 1888 messages to Thomas Edison.
Wow, when she would be alive she would today be 199 years old!
She was a truly great woman and I'm honored to be able to listen to her in this brief moment. God bless, Florence.
Never in a million yeas would I have thought that anything like this existed.
my gosh, we humans have concocted some unfathomable ways to connect with our memorable dead. stunning
The voice of a hero.
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.
Amazing to listen to the voice of someone born over 200 years ago.
i had a teacher who talked like this! :D
This is amazing. Simply amazing.
I really couldn’t make it out but I did hear her say 1890
What an astonishing and beautiful human she was - utterly inspiring. I love her.
''When i am no longer a memory''
bitch please, you're the most influential women in history!
Thank you so much 🙏
Transforming art
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.”
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
This hit straight to my heart and brought me to tears. It is an honor as a nurse to continue her work.
It’s amazing how they could record a voice in the Victorian times and before the war!
I love the GRANDEUR in peoples voices back then, They all sound very grand and worldly. Like a character from some old movie, but more grand.
@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.
Thanks for posting this voice clip! I need it for a school project I'm doing
Love these old recordings. Thank you! :)
a motherly voice i would say !
She was 70 years old when she recorded this. :)
Awesome clarity considering the age and technology.
Thank you for the file. "God bless Miss Nightingale forever"
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.
Loud and Clear Florence 💗✝️
Wonderful and great oldest recording Thomas Edison. And great first actress Florence Lowrance.
It made me cry!!! Amazing!!!
Her voice is so clear for an 1890 recording.
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)
wow never knew this was even possible - thanks soooo much - my KS1 class are in for a treat!!!1
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
OMG that is my hospital! hearing it is like time traveling..
This woman changed healthcare and the world.