This is just for fun guys; so don't take it over seriously however that said; this is indeed the first recorded use of timing for synchronization so far as I can find.and it ties in with my other hobby; vintage/ antique phonographs. I think you will enjoy it as much as I did.so read on:
Most everyone knows about Edison in 1877 patenting the recording of audio but fully 17 years prior to that Scott in Paris France patented the Phonautogram which was finally proven in 2008 to be the oldest recorded sound ever when it was finally decoded. It was done by speaking into the Phonautogram device Scott & Koenig built to put voice squiggles of audio lines onto paper coated with lampblack which he did as far back as 1853 but those can't be decoded for multiple reasons; like the fact Scott wasn't really interested in playing them back so some of the recordings actually backtracked on paper in time which violates the rules a bit so only the later ones can be reverse-engineered. So what made the one of 1860 work? This is the good part! It took the researchers quite some time to figure out that in parallel with the voice squiggle was a perfect sine wave that was ultimately determined to be a musical tuning fork on "then standard" A of 435 Hz. Yes we all know 440 became the standard later but at that time an A was at 435 before you hit REPLY and toss things at me.. Anyway; Scott vibrated a fork squiggle along with the voice pattern and the first time code for synchronization was created in 1860 which can be seen here: http://nesssoftware.com/home/asn/homepage/teaching/exp-lectureNotes/110127-p honautograph/phonautograph_rev.html note you have to scroll about halfway down the page to get to the image of the voice paper but it is sure worth it now that you know what to look for. Note that you can actually HEAR the end results of this squiggle-on-paper which Scott was only able to encode but never decode and I got to hear it at the Antique Phonograph Society back then..relived today and well documented in this large PDF that is really cool to view: http://www.firstsounds.org/publications/facsimiles/FirstSounds_Facsimile_05. pdf For those that really want to hear MP3 renditions of this miracle go here: http://firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php and step back 154 years in time to the first recorded and frequency/ time-synchronized recordings made..enjoy as it is intended or just hit <Delete> if you think there are faults in this! Robert L. (Bob) Burchett Certified Communications Engineer Enterprise Electronics Contractors License 522372 22826 Mariposa Ave. Torrance CA 90502 310.534.4456 [email protected] _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
