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flummuxt
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:11 pm Post subject: Voice recordings 20 years older than Edison's discovered!!!! |
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Did you know that a Frenchman named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville actually recorded a person singing long before Thomas Edison "invented" his phonograph?
Would you believe the first voice recordings are actually from around 1860! Researchers have discovered some of these recordings in pristine condition and played them back for the public this past weekend.
They were in French.
One of the recordings was of the song 'Au Clair de la Lune.'
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89148959
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Oh, and did you know the first devices for recording television broadcasts at home were sold in the 1920s? It's true! |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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Many Welsh settled in America before Columbus, the Chinese came before too. So what? Nothing came of it! Dead ends in the social evolution of history. Footnotes at best.
Interesting but of limited significance in the historical context.
Definitely fun to think about what COULD HAVE BEEN if one development had progressed instead of died out.
The recording is as good as listening to clay pots. Still fascinating though. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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You do realize that she's singing, "April Fools" in French, don't you?
Actually, that is kind of cool. |
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Suwoner10
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| The French Pilt-Down man. |
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flummuxt
Joined: 15 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:09 am Post subject: |
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bassexpander wrote:
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| You do realize that she's singing, "April Fools" in French, don't you? |
No, it's not an April Fools joke.
But I fooled you into thinking it was!
The matter or home television recordings in the 1920s is true! There was a device made by John Logie Baird for recording BBC television broadcasts. It used aluminum disks.
However, like the early sound recordings, he did not have a practical way to play the video portion of the recordings back, according to some sources.
These were sold for home use, and some of the recordings have been found. The earliest known is from 1927. The television images have been recreated with the help of computers.
If you do a search for "Phonovision" and Baird, you will find information about this, some of it contradictory.
There is some confusion about the nature of the disks, apparently because there are a number of different types. New information keeps coming out. Apparently, he sold some prerecorded videos on disks resembling regular 78 RPM records. And apparently there were more than one device for home recording, one to modify a regular Victrola, another a standalone.
Here is a webpage with a lot of information:
http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/baird/vrdawn.php
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| The disc had been recorded on a gramophone fitted with an ingenious home (audio) disc recording attachment called the �Cairmor�, (see right and below) made by Cairns & Morrison Ltd of London and sold in the 1930s for four pounds, twelve shillings. The recording kit came with six aluminium �Silvatone� double-sided blank discs � new ones cost fourpence � that could be recorded, once only, with a steel needle in a special recording head. An arm was mounted across the disc platter and attached to the centre spindle, to provide drive for a lead screw that allowed the recording head to spiral in towards the centre of the disc as it rotated. To play the discs back, you used a fibre needle on the normal gramophone pickup. The recording assembly was designed to connect to your radio�s loudspeaker output, using the radio as an amplifier, for example to allow the included microphone to be used � but it could equally record radio programmes. |
If you look for this paragraph, you will find a tiny image of a video recording from one of these home video recorders:
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| On the disc was a segment from the first-ever television revue, essentially an early �television special� called �Looking In�, featuring dancing from the Paramount Astoria Girls (actual image, right) and broadcast after the National Programme had closed down for the night from Daventry, from 11:12 to 11:53pm on 21 April 1933. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| But but the Koreans must have an older one! |
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