Also was there one of a song about a guy who could whistle like a bird or something? I can't remember the song but I believe it was from 1910.
I find this stuff amazing. Take care all. On Dec 14, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > That is quite a system they are developing. A few years > ago, there was a story in the news about the same research team > who had successfully recovered human voice sounds made in the > late 1850's. A Frenchman had come up with a gadget that would > take your voice and vibrate a needle with it much like Edison's > original phonograph. The needle scratched out a track on a piece > of paper coated with lamp black so the waves of your voice sound > appeared like a squiggly line of white on a black background. > > The idea wasn't to replay the sound back then, but to > produce a sort of automatic signature based on one's voice that > could be attached to documents. > > He patented his device and that was pretty much the end > of things but samples of the tracings were kept by the French > and the Berkeley research team used the same high-resolution > scan technique to reconstitute the squiggly line back in to > sound. > > The man's daughter is heard singing a French song. The > sound is dreadful, but what should one expect in 1858? I heard a > brief snippet of it on the evening news and it would have been > unrecognizable as singing had they not explained beforehand. She > probably also had to sing at the top of her lungs to get the > needle to vibrate as much as possible so it really made me think > of some poor creature being injured. > Travis Siegel writes: >> This is pretty cool. Some scientists have now managed to recover and play >> back some of the earliest recordings from the inventor of the telephone. >> It's quite a good read, > > ======================================= > > The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus > and worm-free > > To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web > pages located at > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at > either of the following websites: > > http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html > > Or: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> > you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > --------------------------------------- ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
