Very early recorded sounds…

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The National Park Service has a collection of early recordings (1888) recorded on phonographs and paraffine cylinders, in MP3 format… [via] – Link.

Related:
Edison National Historic Site, 48,000 disc and cylinder recording collection – Link.

8 thoughts on “Very early recorded sounds…”

mister.joshua says:

September 23rd, 2006 at 2:29 pm

Can those wax cylinders be used as candles?

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Oracle1729 says:

September 24th, 2006 at 4:26 pm

No. There’s no wick :P

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vanoakenfold says:

September 24th, 2006 at 8:45 pm

There is a (possily two) “They Might Be Giants” album track(s) recorded on a wax cylinder at the Edison museum.

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WNixon says:

September 25th, 2006 at 2:07 pm

and of course there’s this…

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1171246024685658304&q=techtv%2F

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