Very interesting process. I use wax cylinders for anthropology myself, having recorded Chief Jones Marie Smith on the medium with Pablo Hellguera. I make the metallic soap compound that Edison blanks were made from during the 1889-1911 period. I also noticed two photos from my website in this video, the 1898 Edison label, and the Poyet drawing of Edison with the perfected phonograph. About 1997 I had predicted on my website a similar kind of way of preserving recordings.
I just noticed two images in this video, pulled from my website one is the sketch of Edison with the perfected phonograph by Poyet it has a unique hue as I scanned it from an 1899 Scientific American volume book in the North American Phonograph Company (The oldest commercial recording company ever formed, founded July 14, 1888 that I own.) and also the red and orange 1899 Edison label, how I know it was from my website is that I had covered some wording on the right side of the label, to put new user information in place, as I still manufacture brown wax records and use this label for our catalog of selections recorded between 1896-1901. We make these records from raw materials ,mold blanks, and use a studio recording attachment that actually made master cylinder recordings at Edison's 79 5th Avenue New York city studio atop the Knickerbocker building, and used by the three trusted sound men, Walter Miller, Fred Burt and George Werner.
I had seen the concept/idea of using lasers to read the groves on discs floated about decades ago but I guess it took someone with access to government money to actually implement the process.
Very interesting process. I use wax cylinders for anthropology myself, having recorded Chief Jones Marie Smith on the medium with Pablo Hellguera. I make the metallic soap compound that Edison blanks were made from during the 1889-1911 period. I also noticed two photos from my website in this video, the 1898 Edison label, and the Poyet drawing of Edison with the perfected phonograph. About 1997 I had predicted on my website a similar kind of way of preserving recordings.
This is absolutely fascinating!
i hope such a thing will be public availbel sometime in the future.
I just noticed two images in this video, pulled from my website one is the sketch of Edison with the perfected phonograph by Poyet it has a unique hue as I scanned it from an 1899 Scientific American volume book in the North American Phonograph Company (The oldest commercial recording company ever formed, founded July 14, 1888 that I own.) and also the red and orange 1899 Edison label, how I know it was from my website is that I had covered some wording on the right side of the label, to put new user information in place, as I still manufacture brown wax records and use this label for our catalog of selections recorded between 1896-1901. We make these records from raw materials ,mold blanks, and use a studio recording attachment that actually made master cylinder recordings at Edison's 79 5th Avenue New York city studio atop the Knickerbocker building, and used by the three trusted sound men, Walter Miller, Fred Burt and George Werner.
Haber? I wonder if he's related to the Haber-Bosch process Haber.
Amazing!!!!
Brilliant see just like that 🙂
I had seen the concept/idea of using lasers to read the groves on discs floated about decades ago but I guess it took someone with access to government money to actually implement the process.
Add steve jobs to that list! (hate rain in 5, 4,3, 2...)