Hear experimental recordings from Bell's Volta Lab
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:17 pm
"In 2011, scholars from three institutions—National Museum of American History Curators Carlene Stephens and Shari Stout, Library of Congress Digital Conversion Specialist Peter Alyea and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell—came together in a newly designed preservation laboratory at the Library of Congress to recover sound from those recordings made more than 100 years ago."
"Now, through a collaborative project with the Library of Congress and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the mystery of what is on these recordings is being unraveled. To date, the team has successfully submitted six discs—all experimental recordings made by the Volta Laboratory Associates between 1881 and 1885—to the sound recovery process."
I am posting some links where you can read more and hear the sounds. The videos on YouTube have captions to read what was spoken.
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stori ... -revealed/
http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?se ... -+DN+Daily
http://bio16p.lbl.gov/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5BwTVblXk4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOsf7ffEP7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv1emaQFg2w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8N69__vFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJrPD9FPFr8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC7O4EtoxHI
"Now, through a collaborative project with the Library of Congress and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the mystery of what is on these recordings is being unraveled. To date, the team has successfully submitted six discs—all experimental recordings made by the Volta Laboratory Associates between 1881 and 1885—to the sound recovery process."
I am posting some links where you can read more and hear the sounds. The videos on YouTube have captions to read what was spoken.
http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stori ... -revealed/
http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?se ... -+DN+Daily
http://bio16p.lbl.gov/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5BwTVblXk4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOsf7ffEP7c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv1emaQFg2w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8N69__vFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJrPD9FPFr8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC7O4EtoxHI