Comments?

How can anyone make comments? It was played back via MP3.

If you can find me a 24/96 version we'll talk.

This is fascinating, but I agree with the researcher, David Giovannoni, who feels that this discovery takes nothing away from Edison. Seems that Scott and Edison had different goals. Beyond that, in order to get sounds off of Scott's phonautograph, these researches had to use modern-day technology. Scott didn't invent the computer. If some scientist one hundred years from now takes my blog and makes it sing, I don't think I should get credit for that.

Edison was more of an audiophile. Scott liked the squiggly lines. He would have loved John Cage's scores.

Cool, nonetheless.

This bit is also interesting, though:

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Unbelievably cool! Thanks!!

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If some scientist one hundred years from now takes my blog and makes it sing, I don't think I should get credit for that.

No, but Al Gore will take credit.

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No, but Al Gore will take credit.

That's fine with me.

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No, but Al Gore will take credit.

That's fine with me.

Yeah, but then the other side will start in with the "What does that one hundred and sixty year old know about anything? He was wrong about global warming, it happened much more quickly that that idiot thought."

Interesting article but for me recording sound is pointless if you can't reproduce it. This Frenchman didn't know if his paper rolls would EVER be playable. It reminds me of the old question, "If a tree falls in the forest, but nobody hears it does it make a sound?" The fidelity on that was atrocious. I would argue that if you didn't know what song was recorded, you'd never be able to figure it out. Edison is the man in my mind. His invention was practical, this thing wasn't. It's more of a historical curiosity, interesting but of little to no technological value.

Pretty amazing idea that guy had. Funny to think of the "faith" a scientist had that someday, some one would be able to play back his recordings.

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Pretty amazing idea that guy had. Funny to think of the "faith" a scientist had that someday, some one would be able to play back his recordings.

Yes!

A wonderful example of the wonders of the human spirit and the drive to understand.

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