#phonautograph

[techismm]

i think, aside from the pretentious stuff, the reason i like old recording tech so much is just. it fascinates me how we've managed to record and play back audio over the last century and a half. it's so neat. i need to do more reading into it because im just fascinated by the method, how we inscribed the sound into physical media.

i also adore the first ever audio recording. its hard to understand and the quality isnt good compared to today but back then it was a technological marvel! and then the obvious feeling of "all these people are dead now, yet we listen to their ghost, their echo, their essence. preserved in history." its just. ugh. i love humans and art and technology. sorry to be pretentious on main it WILL happen again.

[wtf-fun-factss]

The phonautograph was invented by a Frenchman in the 1850's and was the first device to record sound. Researchers played back these early recordings as sound for the first time in 2008. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89380697

[horusvalley]

إستمع لاقدم تسجيل لصوت بشري منذ عام 1860

إستمع لاقدم تسجيل لصوت بشري منذ عام 1860

يميل معظم الناس إلى الاعتقاد بأن توماس إديسون هو أول شخص إستطاع تسجيل الصوت وإعادة تشغيله باستخدام الفونوغراف phonograph. ومع ذلك ، فإن هذا المفهوم صحيح جزئيا فقط. على الرغم من أن إديسون كان أول شخص في التاريخ يقوم بتشغيل ملف صوتي ، إلا أنه لم يكن أول من قام بتسجيل الصوت. لتوضيح الالتباس ، تم إجراء أول تسجيل على الإطلاق لصوت بشري باستخدام الفونوتوجراف phonautograph. ابتكرها بائع الكتب والطابعة…

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Audio Recording Through the Ages [INFOGRAPHIC]

Audio Recording Through the Ages [INFOGRAPHIC]

Today, we can listen to as much music as we like (i.e. with the use of streaming platforms), hear important speeches and events on the news, and even mix and edit audio using advanced audio software. But just 200 years ago, none of this was possible. People could only listen to music live and were limited to written records of speech. The simple reason for this is that there was no way to record…

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[dinosaurdiscs]

Another remarkable phonograph in the Charles Cros Collection. It’s a combination phonograph and phonautograph custom built by Henri Lioret for the University of Paris Institute of Phonetics. It would allow the operator to make a recording on a cylinder and transcribe it to paper upon playback for visual study. It’s essentially the same purpose for which Bell made the ear phonautograph decades earlier. Neat! Browse the collection.

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Recorded in 1860, via a phonautograph. 'Au Clair de la Lune'

[hist105rockblog]

Lecture 1: OK, this is kind of creepy, I realize, so – whatever you do – don’t listen to it alone at nighttime. This restored French sound recording of “Au Clair de la Lune” for the Phonautograph (the earliest known sound recording machine, patented in 1857), likely performed by the daughter of the machine’s inventor, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817-1879), represents a milestone in sound recording. The recording, made April 9, 1860, is the first sound recording ever made – or at least the first extant recording. It predated Thomas Edison’s phonograph by almost twenty years but proved far more limited in its ability to record sound.

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Phonautograph

1857

(https://www.audifill.com/essay/beginner/1_4.html)