Islander Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 First recorded human voice:http://technology.sympatico.msn.ca/Newly+discovered+French+recording+from+1860+oldest+of+human+voice/News/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&newsitemid=34638021&feedname=CP-TECHNOLOGY&show=False&number=10&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=True Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybob Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 When I first heard the recording as you hear it...it was magical, so ethereal," said Giovannoni. "The fact is it's recorded in smoke. The voice is coming out from behind this screen of aural smoke." Whoaa.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 It's both frighteningly eerie and magically amusing all at the same time. To think that just for 10 seconds we can go back in time and hear the voice of a woman or child singing an excerpt of a folk tune in a time that predates our American Civil War by a year! Imagine if there was an phonautogram made by President Lincoln and we could hear his voice today...it truely boggles the mind! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt1stcav Posted March 29, 2008 Share Posted March 29, 2008 Listen for yourself...the phonautograph recording from 1860 of "Au Clair de la Lune": http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?em&ex=1206763200&en=fe155ca1d4c4f90f&ei=5087 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boom3 Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 It's both frighteningly eerie and magically amusing all at the same time. To think that just for 10 seconds we can go back in time and hear the voice of a woman or child singing an excerpt of a folk tune in a time that predates our American Civil War by a year! Imagine if there was an phonautogram made by President Lincoln and we could hear his voice today...it truely boggles the mind! There is a legend, which I heard several years before the present discovery, that a phonautogram was made of Lincoln's voice in 1863. However, there is no corroboration that this ever happened. Lincoln was very interested in technology and had a patent issued to him for a method of freeing riverboats from sandbars-involved inflatable bladders if memory serves. So it is possible that he would have found time for a demo of the phonautogram. The earliest playable Edison-type recording ca. 1878 may be heard here: http://tinfoil.com/cm-0101.htm The famous Mary Had A Little Lamb recording by Edison in 1877 did not survive very long since it was made on tinfoil. Edison later recreated this event and that recording is often believed to be the 1877 original. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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