Very Cool - recordings discovered at Smithsonian

heiney9
heiney9 Posts: 25,165
edited December 2011 in The Clubhouse
Very cool article about Alexander Grahm Bell recordings recently discovered after being locked away literally since they were made.

http://news.yahoo.com/alexander-graham-bell-recordings-played-1880s-210138693.html

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  • halo71
    halo71 Posts: 4,602
    edited December 2011
    Very cool article indeed! I have never heard this though....
    During this time, Bell sent the first wireless telephone message on a beam of light from the roof of a downtown Washington building — a forerunner to modern fiber optics.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited December 2011
    Neat read...

    A great deal of cool, old recordings in the Library of Congress' Jukebox...

    http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/
    More later,
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited December 2011
    Wow, to think he started playing with light beams of information way back then.... Interesting as I work on his ideas Telephone copper wire and all, but more and more if it is all Fiber baby lately. And every day it gets faster, just a few years ago OC48 was the Jet Runner. Now it's OC192 four times the stuff it can carry over OC48.

    OC is Optical Carry system where 48 is to T3 carriers. T3 is 28 T1's where a T1 can carry 24 Dial Tones circuits so a T3 can carry 672 Dial Tone circuits. Now multiply 192 x 672 and you can see the speed at which this stuff is flying at today.

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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited December 2011
    Very cool,
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