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the sound of human[s], take 2

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NutmegCT

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Not to trump Doc's topic ... but it seems they've managed to figure out how play the world's earliest sound recording, made in Paris in 1860. Yep, 1860, and not by Edison.

Recording wasn't originally made to be "played back", just "visually represented". No one had figured out the playback thing yet. But the voice was actually recorded - by scratching a soot-covered cylinder with a bristle attached to a sound-collecting cone, the "phonautograph".

Here's a summary:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html

And here's the sound:

https://graphics8.nytimes.com/audiosrc/arts/1860v2.mp3

And here's what it looked like:

To me, who's been interested in obsolete technology since I was in diapers (don't ask ...), this is COOL!

T.
 
Oi!! That's eeerie. "message in a bottle" eerie. Again reenforces the: "Don't be the FIRST" posit. Seems they're usually the forgotten, or bankrupt in some manner. :devilgrin:
 
Sounds like an EVP.
 
DrEntropy said:
Oi!! That's eeerie. "message in a bottle" eerie. Again reenforces the: "Don't be the FIRST" posit. Seems they're usually the forgotten, or bankrupt in some manner. :devilgrin:
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Yea, like Al Gore getting credit for inventing the internet! Poor guy, invents this marvelous thing and then is all but forgotten... :frown: :devilgrin:
 
DrEntropy said:
.... Again reenforces the: "Don't be the FIRST" posit. Seems they're usually the forgotten, or bankrupt in some manner. :devilgrin:
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Second isn’t necessarily so great either. Edison didn’t make any money on it. His version of the cylinder phonograph worked but was completely useless as a consumer product. I guess getting the credit is <span style="font-style: italic">something</span>.

The phonograph record as we know it, a flat disk, was invented by Emile Berliner. That’s the invention that started the entire recorded sound industry, which continues more than a hundred years later.


NutmegCT said:
...To me, who's been interested in obsolete technology since I was in diapers (don't ask ...), this is COOL!...
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Well, since there are still companies making money pressing vinyl records and others still making money building record players, trust me, I won’t ask.


PC.
 
And I invented the google :devilgrin:

And the gaagle

And the gargle
 
*giggle!*
 
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