http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Edison+technology Posts tagged with 'Edison' and 'technology' at MetaFilter. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:34:55 -0800 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:34:55 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/82099/Oldest%2Drecorded%2Dvoice <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/70270/Researchers-Play-Tune-Recorded-Before-Edison-See-also-Photoautograph">Last year we discussed</a> a recently discovered 10-second audio recording from 1860 that was thought to be the oldest known recorded human voice, a girl or woman singing the 18th century French folk song <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au_Clair_de_la_Lune">“Au Clair de la Lune”</a>. Turns out, it was being played too fast - slow it down and it's the voice of the inventor himself. As well, a number of other recordings have been found, pushing back the oldest recording to 1857. <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104797243&ft=1&f=2">Hear it all on NPR</a> (5-min). “Au Clair de la Lune” various renditions. *<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSasU773tzo">France Gall - Au clair de la lune (1964)</a> *<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvVhLrW_DbY">Caf&#0233; Cr&#0232;me 2</a> *<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQpTVrwf7I">au claire de la lune</a> *<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY1WYIR0l6s">Au Clair de la Lune</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82099 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:34:55 -0800 edison music photoautograph recording sound technology stbalbach http://www.metafilter.com/70270/Researchers%2DPlay%2DTune%2DRecorded%2DBefore%2DEdison%2DSee%2Dalso%2DPhotoautograph <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?_r=1&ref=us&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin" title="The 10-second recording of a singer crooning the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” was discovered earlier this month in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually, not to play them back. But the phonoautograph recording, or phonoautogram, was made playable — converted from squiggles on paper to sound — by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.">Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison </a><br> <a href="http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/tech.php?taid=&id=2345805&lid=1" title="The phonoautograph consisted of a cone-shaped speaking horn with a flexible covering on the small end. A sharp point was attached to the flexible diaphragm, and it touched the surface of a piece of paper. The paper was covered with a thin layer of black soot, and if it were moved beneath the stylus as someone shouted down the horn, the resulting vibration of the diaphragm would be captured as a squiggly line in the soot on the paper... The phonautograph could record but not play.">The Phonoautograph </a><br> <a href="http://www.talkingmachine.org/phonautograph.html" title="Leon Scott's ambition was to produce an oral shorthand. Thomas Young's apparatus (1800), even when improved by other workers mentioned above, provided no means of translating human speech into graphs.">The history of the Phonoautograph</a>. A technology in which you can still buy <a href="http://www.scripophily.net/phoncom19.html" title="Beautifully engraved certificate from the Phonautograph Company issued in 1901. ">stock.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70270 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:49:18 -0800 Edison LeonScott Music Photoautograph Recording Sound Technology y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/42213/Technological%2Dhistories <a href="http://www.ftldesign.com/">Some technological histories</a> - including <a href="http://electricpen.org/index.htm">Edison's Electric Pen</a>, a <a href="http://atlantic-cable.com/">History of the Atlantic Cable &amp; Submarine Telegraphy</a>, and <a href="http://ftldesign.com/Cox/index.html">Cox's 1907 Gold Changer</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42213 Mon, 23 May 2005 11:50:17 -0800 edison history submarinecable technology carter http://www.metafilter.com/34028/The%2DIEEE%2DVirtual%2DMuseum <a href="http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/">The IEEE Virtual Museum.</a> Virtual exhibits about <a href="http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159270&lid=1">microelectronics</a>, <a href="http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159246&lid=1">sound recording</a>, <a href="http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159253&lid=1">Edison</a>, <a href="http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/exhibit/exhibit.php?id=159269&lid=1">war and technology</a> etc. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.34028 Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:03:06 -0800 Edison IEEE IEEEvirtualmuseum microelectronics museums soundrecordings technology plep