Professor Faber | A playbill featuring a future Nobel Prize winner's testimonial

Professor Faber

New Hall ... Marvelous Talking Machine. [London]: np, [1880]

Letterpress handbill (228 x 145 mm). Printed on yellow paper, hand-dated at head; chip to upper left corner, short closed tear to right margin, crease. Matted.

Lord Rayleigh (misprinted on the playbill as Ragleigh), a scientist at the University of Cambridge, developed the duplex theory of human sound localization, and in 1904 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies." 

REFERENCE:

"The Nobel Prize in Physics 1904," NobelPrize.org