A voice from 150 years ago, heard again!

[Ayeshalan]

Nearly twenty years before Edison invented the phonograph, a Frenchman named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was making recordings of sound in graphic form.

Now one of those tracings has been converted back into sound:

Physicists convert first known sound recording (from the SFGate website)

The story includes pictures of Scott's device and a link to the audio.

Truly remarkable stuff.

[fthrll]

	Quote:	Ayeshalan
	Nearly twenty years before Edison invented the phonograph, a Frenchman named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was making recordings of sound in graphic form. Now one of those tracings has been converted back into sound: Physicists convert first known sound recording (from the SFGate website) The story includes pictures of Scott's device and a link to the audio. Truly remarkable stuff.

Remarkable indeed.
... And this is what happened when the normally serious and cool as a cucumber news reader Charlotte Green attempted to get through the article on BBC radio (which includes the recording)....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7318173.stm

[Rich Frohlich]

Reminds me of the teacher voices on the old Peanuts cartoons

[laura]

	Quote:	fthrll
	Remarkable indeed. ... And this is what happened when the normally serious and cool as a cucumber news reader Charlotte Green attempted to get through the article on BBC radio (which includes the recording).... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7318173.stm

Ooh, thanks for the link - I was going to try and find it after hearing the story. Apparently someone whispered that the recording sounded like a 'bee buzzing in a bottle' which cracked her up - I can hear what they meant!