Researchers Play Tune Recorded Before Edison 314
Tree131 writes "The New York Times is reporting that sound recordings pre-dating Edison's made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian typesetter and tinkerer, were discovered by American audio historians at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris. The archives are on paper and were meant for recording but not playback. Researchers used a high quality scan of the recording and an electronic needle to play back the sounds recorded 150 years ago. 'For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words "Mary had a little lamb" on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison's invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.'"
Not the first, but gets all the credit? (Score:5, Funny)
And the first words were ... (Score:4, Funny)
"I surrender!"
Well? (Score:5, Funny)
Possible contents: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not the first, but gets all the credit? (Score:5, Funny)
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That would be George Washington Carver Rodrigues LaFitte, the black Hispanic Frenchman who invented a method of storing binary data ao a peanut?
Re:So... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not the first, but gets all the credit? (Score:5, Funny)
Blast it, don't encourage the Anonymous Cowards!
DMCA Violation! (Score:5, Funny)
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RIAA (Score:3, Funny)
Re:And the first words were ... (Score:2, Funny)
Edison and The Simpsons (Score:4, Funny)
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I remember those, you wore them over your sneakers, and tightened the metal clamps around your feet with a key. The vibration of metal on pavement would cause numbing foot paralysis within minutes.
And do you think it would ever occur to our parents to put a helmet or shin pads on us? Apparently we were expendable back then.
Oh well,
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Re:Not the first, but gets all the credit? (Score:5, Funny)
More importantly, though; "Thomas Alva Edison" is so much easier to write than, "Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville". Think of all the trees and ink we'd save!
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Not Romans, but the aliens Xenu dumped into the volcano. Now their souls are slowly uploading their knowledge into our heads.
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It was the Atlantians who had that stuff.
I even heard they had 1024 core computers with terrabytes of ram!
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