Silicate Wielder
January 22nd, 2013, 10:55 PM
While googling for an article related to something I just saw on the news, I found this. I'm rather amazed. I was skeptical about the recording at first but I can hear a lady singing the first verse of Twinkle-Twinke-little-star very clearly :D
What’s the News: More than a century ago, Thomas Edison recorded a woman speaking the first verse of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” on a metal cylinder for use in a talking doll. Now, scientists using microscopes to create 3D scans of the badly damaged cylinder have made it possible to hear her voice again, through the patina of years.
Rest of article:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/07/using-a-microscope-scientists-resurrect-a-123-year-old-recording/#.UP9c6zgioxA
Link to recording:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/files/2011/07/tenhp_edison_c_E-821-8_edis-1279_20110523_minus-5-semitones-and-eqd.mp3
Article for the dolls the cylinder was originally used in
http://edison.rutgers.edu/images/fp/fp0356.jpg
What’s the News: More than a century ago, Thomas Edison recorded a woman speaking the first verse of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” on a metal cylinder for use in a talking doll. Now, scientists using microscopes to create 3D scans of the badly damaged cylinder have made it possible to hear her voice again, through the patina of years.
Rest of article:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/07/using-a-microscope-scientists-resurrect-a-123-year-old-recording/#.UP9c6zgioxA
Link to recording:http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/files/2011/07/tenhp_edison_c_E-821-8_edis-1279_20110523_minus-5-semitones-and-eqd.mp3
Article for the dolls the cylinder was originally used in
http://edison.rutgers.edu/images/fp/fp0356.jpg