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Sound pulled from 125-year-old recordings

By T.K. Randall
January 2, 2012 · Comment icon 7 comments

Image Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Scientists have been able to retrieve sound from recordings made in Alexander Graham Bell's lab.
Bell had made the recordings to safeguard against having his ideas stolen and had sent them to the Smithsonian Institute, his team had been working on improving the sound quality of Thomas Edison's phonograph. It isn't known if any of the voices on the recordings is that of Bell himself however there were only two other people working with him at the time suggesting that one of them could be him.
cientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have succeeded in using 3D optical scanning technology to effectively lift the voices from 125 year old recordings created by researchers working in Alexander Graham Bell’s Volta laboratory.


Source: PhysOrg.com | Comments (7)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by King Fluffs 12 years ago
That guy has a nice beard...
Comment icon #2 Posted by Junior Chubb 12 years ago
It was spooky listening to that old recording, not that it was very clear. I was expecting it to be a bit more audible.And yes, its a very nice beard.
Comment icon #3 Posted by Earthling70 12 years ago
Fascinating! But I have to agree, it was quite spooky listening to those voices.
Comment icon #4 Posted by Device 12 years ago
Look at the old discs. Clay by the looks of things. Wouldn't want to shove those in my cd player. BUT, its a wonder they managed to recover any sound at all. Amazing. And sort of sad in a way - those voices from so long ago.
Comment icon #5 Posted by AnVil 12 years ago
Very cool.
Comment icon #6 Posted by ProfessorWhat 12 years ago
HAA!! Brilliant, and that Lamb track is actually pretty flippin cool to boot too, I'ma gonna have fun with that!!
Comment icon #7 Posted by and then 12 years ago
That guy has a nice beard... Shhhhhhh the Amish gangsters might hear


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