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Recordings made by Alexander Graham Bell Heard for the First Time
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| Jan 13, 2012
Posted on 10/25/2012 12:52:40 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Researchers and scientists work together to find a way to play recordings made by the studio of inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94qEVX55JqY&feature=relmfu
TOPICS: History; Science
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To: My Favorite Headache
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posted on
10/25/2012 12:54:57 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
To: My Favorite Headache
The first time? Really? The first time EVER? Somehow I am suspecting it is “the first time in X number of years...”
I can’t get to youtube now. Work has it blocked.
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posted on
10/25/2012 1:01:58 AM PDT
by
Jemian
To: Jemian
The first time? Really? The first time EVER? Somehow I am suspecting it is the first time in X number of years... The keyword is "non-invasively". That is to say, to use present-day technology to recover the sound as best as it can, without damaging the original in such a way as to block future efforts using future technology to do the same.
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posted on
10/25/2012 1:14:24 AM PDT
by
cynwoody
To: My Favorite Headache
Wow! What a thrill! Almost as exciting as this morning’s phone call over my AT&T wireless phone! I had almost 3 (THREE!) minutes of conversation — not quite as clear as this recording, but okay — before the call dropped! That’s DARN good!
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posted on
10/25/2012 1:27:37 AM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
("You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.")
To: My Favorite Headache
So they must be using a pulsed laser to gather data on the topology of the recording, which would seem to be the most complete way of digitizing the recording. Using a needle to read out the record would risk wear/damage.
It puts me in mind of a videotaped course on digital signal processing I took back in the 1970s, in which they demonstrated enhancing an old Caruso record which had been made with a purely mechanical process, without electronics. Which had terrible frequency response. It was remarkable what they could do with that, at the dawn of digital signal processing. I would hope they could do a lot better than that now, what with mere iPads having more number-crunch capability than a supercomputer of that era.
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posted on
10/25/2012 2:11:17 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: My Favorite Headache
So they must be using a pulsed laser to gather data on the topology of the recording, which would seem to be the most complete way of digitizing the recording. Using a needle to read out the record would risk wear/damage.
It puts me in mind of a videotaped course on digital signal processing I took back in the 1970s, in which they demonstrated enhancing an old Caruso record which had been made with a purely mechanical process, without electronics. Which had terrible frequency response. It was remarkable what they could do with that, at the dawn of digital signal processing. I would hope they could do a lot better than that now, what with mere iPads having more number-crunch capability than a supercomputer of that era.
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posted on
10/25/2012 2:11:21 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: cynwoody
Where is that keyword? I salute their success. The headline and explanation aren’t clear.
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posted on
10/25/2012 2:13:03 AM PDT
by
Jemian
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
No laser. It's a 3d camera. Still wonder why they never tried a pulsed laser to recover the data.
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posted on
10/25/2012 2:14:31 AM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: My Favorite Headache
Sidebar: My daughter went to school with Alexander Graham Bell’s great-granddaughter. (President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, has two living grandsons.) Strange how close we are to what seems like ancient times. Her family was not particularly wealthy, which shows how quickly family fortunes dissipate. (She attended public school in a leafy suburb.)
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posted on
10/25/2012 2:28:07 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Obama: Brought to you by the letter "O" and the number 16 trillion.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
And just imagine what Bell would be thinking of listening to those recordings on Youtube over the internet!
I used to live in New Jersey next to an old guy and he would talk about the old days. How as a kid he worked at the Edison Cement Factory just down the road from our clump of houses set among the farm fields. The factory then was nothing but a few foundations still visible.
But he would tell stories of checking the weight of the cement and bringing the results back to the office, sometimes to Tommy when he was there. Or bringing a sandwich into Tommy.
It took me several visits for something to click.
“Wait! You mean Thomas Edison!? You would bring sandwiches to Thomas Edison!!??”
“Hell - who did you think I was talking about!?”
(In my defense, I had never heard him called “Tommy” before, nor did I know that he made cement!)
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posted on
10/25/2012 2:36:32 AM PDT
by
21twelve
(So I [God] gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. Psalm 81:12)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Sidebar: My daughter went to school with Alexander Graham Bells great-granddaughter. (President John Tyler, who was born in 1790, has two living grandsons.) Strange how close we are to what seems like ancient times. Her family was not particularly wealthy, which shows how quickly family fortunes dissipate. (She attended public school in a leafy suburb.)
AG Bell had a lot of children, and, he used quite a bit of his wealth to work on other inventions (AGB was an innovator in hydrofoil boats....developed the “original cell phone”...and other inventions). AGB was not broke when he died, but he had quite a few descendants, so not surprised his wealth had been diluted over the years
If you and other FReepers ever get to Nova Scotia...his museum in Baddeck (on Cape Breton Island) is one of the most interesting you’ll find. It is on his old property he bought after he invented the phone
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posted on
10/25/2012 3:20:11 AM PDT
by
SeminoleCounty
(Political maturity is realizing that the "R" next to someone's name does not mean "conservative")
To: 21twelve
How cool is that? knowing someone that worked for Edison...lol
To: My Favorite Headache
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10/25/2012 4:08:13 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Didn't Tyler have the largest number of children of any President? A close friend is a descendant.
Without a search, I remember 14, off the top of my head.
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posted on
10/25/2012 4:10:24 AM PDT
by
Prospero
To: My Favorite Headache
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posted on
10/25/2012 4:16:42 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: JoeProBono
WAAASSUUUUPPPP!!!
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posted on
10/25/2012 6:03:10 AM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter")
To: Jemian
The first time? Really? The first time EVER? Somehow I am suspecting it is the first time in X number of years...
There were even earlier recordings that were recorded, but unplayed:
A group of researchers has succeeded in playing a sound recording of a human voice made in 1860 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. Roughly ten seconds in length, the recording is of a person singing Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit a snippet from a French folksong. It was made on April 9, 1860 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his phonautograph a device that scratched sound waves onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp. Scott never dreamed of playing back his recordings. But this morning, the dream Scott never had will come true. A cadre of audio historians, recording engineers, and scientists working in conjunction with the First Sounds initiative has transformed Scotts smoked-paper tracings into sound.
http://www.firstsounds.org/press/032708/release_2008-0327.pdf
And yes, the creepy recording is on YouTube somewhere.
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posted on
10/25/2012 6:35:25 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: GreenLanternCorps
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posted on
10/25/2012 7:18:38 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: JoeProBono; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
"I'm eating tomato soup with grilled cheese and a side of arugula for lunch, and you're not!"
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posted on
10/25/2012 9:13:29 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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