They have an audio recording of Queen Victoria's voice. The fun part about that, is that her grandfather was George III, born 1738, the king who reigned during the American revolutionary war. George III was born before the Great Britain even formed, in the kingdom of England when it was a sovereign nation. So we have a recording of the voice of a woman, grand daughter to george III, a man born in 1738, who in his lifetime would have met people born in the 1600s. Insane. Though its believed george never met victoria, he died 8 months after her birth and by that time he had lost his mind due to his illness. The past really isnt that long ago when you think about it.
I agree. You have to actively work to imagine people from history as real, breathing humans and not like concepts/icons/similar. When we have voices or moving images it is easier
I remember hearing my Victorian great grandparents recount stories from their long lives when I was a child. That connection with the past still fascinates me. 😊
Wow. Your endless curiosity about practically everything is so fascinating. I never realised. Baffling to bump into someone like myself, though I'm prone to wander along all possible side tracks aka interesting little snippets, sources, background information, references..
The mechanical recording/playback technology is the same process going two ways. For recording, sound waves make a membrane vibrate, and a stylus attached to the membrane inscribes the vibrations as grooves on the recording medium. For playback, a stylus runs through the grooves that make it vibrate, and the vibrations of the stylus make a membrane vibrate, producing audible sound waves. It's the same thing a speaker does even nowadays, except the vibrations are produced by electrical current rather than mechanical transmission.
Indentations are a copy (an analog) of the movement of a stylus, which was, during recording, connected to a membrane that was moved by soundwaves. The Indentations are an image over time of the sound waves of a sound. That's also how vinyl record work. The "normal" way to play it back is to reverse the process : stick a stylus along the groove of the Indentations, have it connected to the movement of a membrane that compresses and expand air, these are sound waves. The method for reading back this old recording is to scan the indentations and work back that movement using computers
Nursery rhymes are usually very old. I once asked myself how old the nursery rhyme "Now I lay me down to sleep" that you can hear in several movies and songs is. The answer: 17th century
Interestingly some early mechanical tv broadcasts were recorded onto gramophone discs and when decoded they could be played back, although it took decades for the technology to catch up to the point where they could be deciphered again.
I totally agree how incredible it is love this kind of stuff connecting us to those people from the past as if to say welcome back. Not here in this but thought amazing the voice of Queen Victoria was recorded.
My grandfather used to collect these kind of machines. Gramophones, phonographs & other old recording machines. This is how I learned about Edison, and this astonishing story. My grandfather worked in this little shop in Haarlem, the Netherlands. And they sold these machines and old 78rpm records, and all the things that belonged with this time period. This is how I got interested in history, and stories. In a way, this is how I eventually ended up at this UA-cam channel, and these reactions videos. It blows my mind how for me, this has gotten full circle. Thank you Connor, for making these videos!
Something on the "Thomas Edison of Finland", Eric Tigerstedt, who was one of the sound-on-film pioneers, and also the first to come up with the idea of mobile phone, in 1917: "PATENT NO. 314805 | TRAILER | NORDISK PANORAMA 2020", "Eric Tigerstedt: The Man Who Invented Sound on Film" and "Tidbits of History History you didn't know about Mobile Phones".
For me the interesting part in looking back is not only is it tough to see our forbears as living beings, but it’s even harder to bear in mind that whilst we know what events happened, they had no idea what the outcomes of their actions would be.
Something else that's really mind boggling if you think about it: how long has humanity known fire? Pretty much since our very first days. We tamed it, made it our own, put it in stoves, ovens and chimneys literally for millennia. And up until 150 years ago give or take fire was our only source of light (besides the sun, moon and stars). Candle, lantern, whatever, if you wanted it to shine a light, there had to be some form of fire involved. And now look at us today and how far we have seperated light from fire... "salesman" was the word you were looking for concerning Edison...
As far as i know, this man is dead now, but even if his son is still alive, it is still astonishing, to have a greatgrandfather, born in 1790. Btw., one of my greatgrandfathers was born 1877.
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder was indeed one of the most important figures for German unification. However, he is rarely remembered as such, or remembered at all (in Germany at least). This is probably due to, of course, Bismarck being the main political figure there, but also the fact that after WW2, the military aspects of German history are rarely highlighted (again, in Germany at least) at all, in order to avoid glorification and the rebirth of militarism. The diplomats and politicians of times gone are remembered much more.
Finnish Eric Tigerstedt developed sound film technology that was used until the digitalization of films and further developed electron tubes for sound amplification, but he collaborated with Edison, so he probably took credit for those as well😅 I don't think Tigerstedt is very well known in Finland, despite his rather revolutionary inventions.
They have an audio recording of Queen Victoria's voice. The fun part about that, is that her grandfather was George III, born 1738, the king who reigned during the American revolutionary war. George III was born before the Great Britain even formed, in the kingdom of England when it was a sovereign nation. So we have a recording of the voice of a woman, grand daughter to george III, a man born in 1738, who in his lifetime would have met people born in the 1600s. Insane. Though its believed george never met victoria, he died 8 months after her birth and by that time he had lost his mind due to his illness. The past really isnt that long ago when you think about it.
George III., for example, met his own grandfather George II., who had been born in the 1680's
The Kingdom of Great Britain was formed in 1707. That's when England ceased to be a sovereign nation, 31 years *before* George III's birth.
I agree. You have to actively work to imagine people from history as real, breathing humans and not like concepts/icons/similar.
When we have voices or moving images it is easier
I remember hearing my Victorian great grandparents recount stories from their long lives when I was a child. That connection with the past still fascinates me. 😊
there are also recordings of Bismarck's voice ...
Wow. Your endless curiosity about practically everything is so fascinating. I never realised. Baffling to bump into someone like myself, though I'm prone to wander along all possible side tracks aka interesting little snippets, sources, background information, references..
The mechanical recording/playback technology is the same process going two ways. For recording, sound waves make a membrane vibrate, and a stylus attached to the membrane inscribes the vibrations as grooves on the recording medium. For playback, a stylus runs through the grooves that make it vibrate, and the vibrations of the stylus make a membrane vibrate, producing audible sound waves. It's the same thing a speaker does even nowadays, except the vibrations are produced by electrical current rather than mechanical transmission.
Although the words are difficult or impossible to distinguish, the tune of "Au clair de la lune" is unmistakeable!
I can still understand part of the song.
Indentations are a copy (an analog) of the movement of a stylus, which was, during recording, connected to a membrane that was moved by soundwaves. The Indentations are an image over time of the sound waves of a sound. That's also how vinyl record work. The "normal" way to play it back is to reverse the process : stick a stylus along the groove of the Indentations, have it connected to the movement of a membrane that compresses and expand air, these are sound waves.
The method for reading back this old recording is to scan the indentations and work back that movement using computers
Nursery rhymes are usually very old. I once asked myself how old the nursery rhyme "Now I lay me down to sleep" that you can hear in several movies and songs is. The answer: 17th century
Interestingly some early mechanical tv broadcasts were recorded onto gramophone discs and when decoded they could be played back, although it took decades for the technology to catch up to the point where they could be deciphered again.
I totally agree how incredible it is love this kind of stuff connecting us to those people from the past as if to say welcome back. Not here in this but thought amazing the voice of Queen Victoria was recorded.
My grandfather used to collect these kind of machines. Gramophones, phonographs & other old recording machines. This is how I learned about Edison, and this astonishing story. My grandfather worked in this little shop in Haarlem, the Netherlands. And they sold these machines and old 78rpm records, and all the things that belonged with this time period. This is how I got interested in history, and stories. In a way, this is how I eventually ended up at this UA-cam channel, and these reactions videos. It blows my mind how for me, this has gotten full circle. Thank you Connor, for making these videos!
There's something very beautiful about what is lost
Something on the "Thomas Edison of Finland", Eric Tigerstedt, who was one of the sound-on-film pioneers, and also the first to come up with the idea of mobile phone, in 1917: "PATENT NO. 314805 | TRAILER | NORDISK PANORAMA 2020", "Eric Tigerstedt: The Man Who Invented Sound on Film" and "Tidbits of History History you didn't know about Mobile Phones".
For me the interesting part in looking back is not only is it tough to see our forbears as living beings, but it’s even harder to bear in mind that whilst we know what events happened, they had no idea what the outcomes of their actions would be.
Something else that's really mind boggling if you think about it: how long has humanity known fire? Pretty much since our very first days. We tamed it, made it our own, put it in stoves, ovens and chimneys literally for millennia. And up until 150 years ago give or take fire was our only source of light (besides the sun, moon and stars). Candle, lantern, whatever, if you wanted it to shine a light, there had to be some form of fire involved. And now look at us today and how far we have seperated light from fire...
"salesman" was the word you were looking for concerning Edison...
There is a man alive in America today whose grandfather was born in 1790. His grandfather was John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States.
As far as i know, this man is dead now, but even if his son is still alive, it is still astonishing, to have a greatgrandfather, born in 1790. Btw., one of my greatgrandfathers was born 1877.
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder was indeed one of the most important figures for German unification. However, he is rarely remembered as such, or remembered at all (in Germany at least). This is probably due to, of course, Bismarck being the main political figure there, but also the fact that after WW2, the military aspects of German history are rarely highlighted (again, in Germany at least) at all, in order to avoid glorification and the rebirth of militarism. The diplomats and politicians of times gone are remembered much more.
But there are still conaisseuers , who know german Military History started in 955, Lechfeld battle, exactly 1000 years before Bundeswehr was founded.
I married my wife just a few years ago, somehow her voice is all that is left on my hard drive nowadays.
It's chilling. I feel like I'm listening to ghosts.
The story how speech radio got invented is very heart warming. Chrismas eve or boxing day 1906.
"We are dwarves, standing on the shoulders of giants"
Finnish Eric Tigerstedt developed sound film technology that was used until the digitalization of films and further developed electron tubes for sound amplification, but he collaborated with Edison, so he probably took credit for those as well😅 I don't think Tigerstedt is very well known in Finland, despite his rather revolutionary inventions.
This is interesting
damn, my dad is going to be 62 in a couple of weeks. Shit is crazy.
Connor do you think he would, or even could, have imagined we would be listening to his voice in 2024????......
Read about piezo electric crystals, fascinating stuff.
vinyl records work in the same way
Have you never seen and played a vinyl record?
Edison is the biggest copycat in history
In case of Telephone a german Philipp Reis could be real Inventar.
One day, at some point, someone will listen to you with a fascination with the😢 past. Maybe, one day, you'll be nothing but evidence.
Edison didn't invent the phonograph, it was invented in his laboratory...then he patented it.
it was a different time under Edison, so the invention could be made money
‘fraid AI commentary annoys the s**t out of me. Unwatchable.