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Monday, 6 February 2012
quote [ Tucked away for decades in a cabinet in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, just behind the cot in which the great inventor napped, a trove of wax cylinder phonograph records has been brought back to life after more than a century of silence. ]
More in extended.
MP3s of wax cylinder recordings:
[by mechanical contrivance@11:39pmGMT] [+10 Old] http://www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/audio-wangemann-1889-1890-european-recordings.htm The first actual recordings ever made of sounds and voice: http://www.firstsounds.org/ From March 11, 1885, the first time the word 'fuck' was ever recorded: http://firstsounds.org/sounds/volta/ (scroll down to disc 3) Only known recording of a castrato singer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-S3uoeTXg Guy breaks wax cylinder on TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnsizkVjGm8 And keep an eye out for wax cylinders of Mark Twain dictating part of his novel The American Claimant. Let me know if you find them, |
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lilmookieesquire
said @ 11:48pm GMT on 6th Feb
[Score:3 Insightful]
This shit is like 100 years old!!! +10 old |
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sanepride
said @ 12:00am GMT on 7th Feb
[Score:4 Insightful]
Careful man. Last time I pulled this stunt I was subject to multiple hissy fits. |
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cb361
said @ 3:48pm GMT on 7th Feb
[Score:3 Insightful]
What a pompous comment. |
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damnit
said @ 2:33am GMT on 7th Feb
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Baron
said @ 4:02am GMT on 7th Feb
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Ankylosaur
said @ 11:57pm GMT on 6th Feb
[Score:1 Funny]
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todde
said @ 12:11am GMT on 7th Feb
John Phillip Sousa can suck my big ten inch... record of the band that plays the Blues. |
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tickaz
said @ 7:56am GMT on 7th Feb
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sacrelicious
said @ 12:01am GMT on 7th Feb
[Score:1 Underrated]
and yet there are already extinct websites and content that will never be recovered. physical media: it's not just your right, it's your responsibility. |
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structured_spirits
said @ 12:24am GMT on 7th Feb
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actionmonkey
said @ 1:27am GMT on 7th Feb
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/nyregion/some-churches-hope-albany-will-act-to-allow-renting-school-space-to-pray.html |
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sacrelicious
said @ 1:31am GMT on 7th Feb
well shit, you can pray in my bedroom if the price is right. |
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happiest_sadist
said @ 4:59am GMT on 7th Feb
OH GOD OH GOD OOOOOOH GAAAAAWD Your money's on the dresser, sugar :^} |
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Galley
said @ 2:18am GMT on 7th Feb
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hippoh
said @ 7:23am GMT on 7th Feb
[Score:1 Funny]
Obligatory |
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hippoh
said @ 7:24am GMT on 7th Feb
For the older browsers |
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tickaz
said @ 8:26am GMT on 7th Feb
I love the way the host reacts with a "I guess that's the end of that segment then" |
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lilmookieesquire
said @ 3:52pm GMT on 7th Feb
I can't figure out if he's horribly nervous or has a bit of a condition. |
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