Post by clarencebunsen on Dec 13, 2011 23:45:39 GMT -5
Alexander Graham Bell recordings from 1880s are played for first time
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If you go to the site, just above the photo are tabs Copper Disc, Glass Disc, Green Wax. Click on the tab to get to where you can play the recordings.
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Famed American inventor Alexander Graham Bell and his associates, cousin Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, experimented with disc and cylinder recordings between 1880 and 1885.
The Smithsonian collections contain early apparatus, recordings and documents from Bell's Volta Laboratory. Bell and other inventors used a variety of materials in search of the best medium for audio recording and playback. They experimented with rubber, beeswax, glass tinfoil and brass.
Now, the Library of Congress, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Smithsonian Institution have used modern technology to process and play some of those recordings back publicly for the first time.
If you go to the site, just above the photo are tabs Copper Disc, Glass Disc, Green Wax. Click on the tab to get to where you can play the recordings.