Mar. 13th, 2012

thewayne: (Default)
Today's been a fairly good day, but a laugh like this always makes things better!

Darn dangerous Canucks!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/dick-cheney-avoids-dangerous-canada-221531285.html
thewayne: (Default)
They found a box of wax cylinders in Thomas Edison's office that were made during an extended trip to the Paris World's Fair in 1889. Edison sent an engineer to keep the recorder working, and after the fair was over, the engineer took a vacation to Germany and traveled around a bit making recordings which included Bismark.

The second link is the site for the device that read the wax cylinder. Apparently it can read a variety of cylinder sizes and playback speeds, which I think is pretty awesome.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/science/bismarcks-voice-among-restored-edison-recordings.html?_r=4

http://www.archeophone.org/warcheophone_specifications.php

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