THE 1857 PHONAUTOGRAPH / EXCELLENT RESULTS

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THE 1857 PHONAUTOGRAPH / EXCELLENT RESULTS

Post: # 46884Unread post THEVICTROLAGUY
Sun May 14, 2017 8:35 pm

a very special day. i have been working on this machine for weeks, this is going to the national museum of south korea. i just got the machine completed today and am doing a series of experiments. this was the first machine in the history of the world to record sound, it cannot reproduce it, but it can record it. this was 20 years before the invention of the phonograph.

the machine is recording on a sheet of white paper that has been coated with pure carbon from a paraffin lamp. a very interesting and historic machine. the recordings are called phonautograms...

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Re: THE 1857 PHONAUTOGRAPH / EXCELLENT RESULTS

Post: # 46892Unread post tragwag
Tue May 16, 2017 3:19 pm

fascinating! thanks for sharing
making lathe cuts on a Presto 6N, HIFI stereo cuts on vinylrecorder
at Audio Geography Studios, Providence, RI USA
http://www.audiogeography.com

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