I think that it's really sweet that the first thing in human history Édouard-Léon decided to record was a song. There's something touching about it, as if he was trying to capture something beautiful.
@Broken_robot1986 Жыл бұрын
Would have been wild if he came out with the Summers hottest jam tho.
@HuckleberryHim Жыл бұрын
Not to be a downer but it is a pretty obvious choice, recognizable, indexable, etc. The first Edison recording was also a song. Most of these "first" recordings were songs, because, again, it's an obvious choice Even in the visual microphone experiment from the modern day, they use a song as the example!
@svetlanakholmetskaya6282 Жыл бұрын
@@HuckleberryHim didn't Edison record a poem?
@HuckleberryHim Жыл бұрын
@@svetlanakholmetskaya6282 "Mary Had a Little Lamb"? I think it counts as a song, no? Maybe not, idk
@svetlanakholmetskaya6282 Жыл бұрын
@@HuckleberryHim well, it kinda does, but he wasn't singing it, that was my point
@NQR-9000 Жыл бұрын
Weird trivia : in the french dub of "2001 : a space odissey", HAL sings "Au clair de la Lune" while Dave is turning it off. It's a strangely great choice done without knowing it's the first voice ever mechanically recorded, while in the original version the song is "Daisy", chosen because it was the first song performed by a computer at Bell labs in 1962...
@jeffreyleonard7210 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for that bit of cultural information. It is quite a coincidence.
@CWhisperer1 Жыл бұрын
1. **Cultural Localization**: The choice of "Au clair de la Lune" in the French dub is an example of cultural localization in film. It shows how adaptations can be sensitive to the cultural and historical context of the audience, even if the original significance related to "Daisy" is lost in translation. 2. **Emotional Resonance**: Both songs are simple and childlike, which adds an emotional layer to the act of shutting down HAL, a highly advanced AI. The juxtaposition of a machine capable of complex tasks singing a simple tune as it "dies" adds a poignant touch to the scene. 3. **Technological Milestones**: Both songs serve as markers for technological progress in their respective fields-sound recording and computer science. Their inclusion in a film that explores the relationship between humanity and technology is a subtle but powerful thematic reinforcement. 4. **Narrative Foreshadowing**: In both versions, the choice of song foreshadows the film's deeper exploration of the relationship between humans and technology. The songs serve as a metaphor for the innocence and potential dangers inherent in technological advancement. 5. **Musical Motif**: Music plays a significant role throughout "2001: A Space Odyssey," from the iconic use of "Also sprach Zarathustra" to the "Blue Danube Waltz." The songs sung by HAL fit into this broader musical tapestry, each contributing to the film's complex interplay of sound and visuals. 6. **Historical Irony**: There's a certain irony in using songs that marked historical "firsts" in technology in a scene that depicts the "end" of a technological entity. It's as if the film is coming full circle, from the dawn of technological innovation to its potential dusk. 7. **Interdisciplinary Connections**: Both the original and the French dub versions create a bridge between the worlds of art and science. They show how technological milestones can be integrated into artistic expression to create a richer narrative experience. Each of these points adds another layer of complexity and interest to what is already a deeply layered and iconic film.
@lulumoon6942 Жыл бұрын
👍
@annahappen7036 Жыл бұрын
@@CWhisperer1all this in a humble KZfaq comment. Who says social media is trash? Bravo! 👏
@andrewkaiser7203 Жыл бұрын
@@CWhisperer1 I think "Baby Got Back" would be a better fit for the movie though. For obvious reasons.
@4nn13h7 Жыл бұрын
Hey, his invention may not have worked in the immediate, but he’s still quite possibly the oldest human voice we’ll ever hear. Beautiful.
@chriskaprys Жыл бұрын
It's like watching those AI-enhanced clips of video footage from the late 1800s. Something equally eery and beautiful, like a glimpse into an actual stargate of some kind.
@sonorangaming44911 ай бұрын
What about those pottery recordings?
@4nn13h711 ай бұрын
@@sonorangaming449 I think they determined those to be a modern hoax?
@RandomVidsforthought11 ай бұрын
@@sonorangaming449😂
@peterevans648011 ай бұрын
timestamp for when its played?
@peluso4oso Жыл бұрын
Hearing Edouard-Leon's voice gave me chills. This is a guy that's now so long gone and here is his voice. It really sounds like a recording that could have happened last week over a cheap microphone or a baby monitor. It reminds me of how some time back, some archeologists were exploring a tomb in Egypt. It was pretty unperturbed and there were beautiful pristine murals on the walls. But amongst them, on one wall, one of the frescoes had an imperfection. In a small part of the fresco they found the imprint of one of the workers' finger. His finger print. They believed that while the plaster was still fresh and the paint was drying, the worker had carelessly put too much pressure on the plaster, leaving his print behind. This was an amazing discovery maybe more valuable than all the treasure in the tomb because it gives us a reminder that these ancient tombs and monument that - for us and many before us - seem to have always existed; they weren't there once. But not only that, it also puts real humanity in it. Worker, real people like you and me built them. People who had lives, loved ones, cried and laughed, had real thoughts and emotions, that were tangible like your own family and friends, people who once had names and memories - now completely loss to time and forgotten. Millions have come before us that are gone and forgotten and feels like they never existed. One day most us will face the same faith. -- This man, whose fingerprint is in this tomb, had that same happen to him. We will never know his name, anything about his life or his family, not even whether his descendants are still alive. But his print is still there, two thousand years later and for eons to come - immortalizing a man nobody will ever know but making human as any of us. - Sometimes I wish I could feel his print and see what he saw so long ago, if not to just know his name.
@davidkantor7978 Жыл бұрын
The age of that tomb: maybe more like 4000 years. Or 4500.
@eriamelrrow6195 Жыл бұрын
That's beautiful. Thank you.
@peluso4oso Жыл бұрын
@@davidkantor7978 I wasn't so sure about the time frame, but I think you just pointered my point.
@Broken_robot1986 Жыл бұрын
I don't even care about the finger print guy, I do hope he was fired for being so messy on the job tho. I can't stand sloppy work.
@terrifiedpistachio Жыл бұрын
@@Broken_robot1986 bruh
@lindsayschmidt2177 Жыл бұрын
Hearing the first recording of a human’s voice actually makes me super emotional. It’s strange to feel such a connection to someone who lived so long ago.
@RDani22311 ай бұрын
if you think about it we are at the beginning of the era when modern technology is available in about a couple of hundreds of years the internet will be full of inputs from people who died long ago and it will be a much more common occurrence
@Ken-fh4jc9 ай бұрын
I felt the same way. This dude had no way of knowing 160 years later millions of people all around the world would be hearing this.
@Just_Sara Жыл бұрын
It kind of feels almost like hearing a ghost, tbh. Creepy and fantastic, almost impossible, yet this guy plus people today achieved it, together through time.
@joshjones6072 Жыл бұрын
Haha I thought the same thing!
@WillShackAttack Жыл бұрын
Oh great, now next time I see a black and white movie it's going to feel like seeing ghosts on my TV.
@Just_Sara Жыл бұрын
@@WillShackAttack Whenever I watch silent films, that’s actually how it feels. Probably every person, no matter how young they were then on that film has now at best died of old age.
@stanleybochenek1862 Жыл бұрын
i find it kinda funny rather than creepy but aside my broken humor it is pretty amazing after all
@punchkitten874 Жыл бұрын
8:38 Omg, using a tuning fork is a real stroke of genius when you think about it. This had never been done before, dude had to come up with some way to ensure regulation, and using a tuning fork meant ANYONE could reinterpret the sounds precisely. It got me thinking "Did we put a tuning fork-like sound on that gold record we shot into space?" The first guy to record sound had the best fidelity idea ever
@GlaceonStudios10 ай бұрын
I think there are some sounds on there that signify that you are doing it the right amount of times--and the images on the record do include a calibration circle as well. The first note, I think, is about 250 Hz.
@AnastasiaCooper8 ай бұрын
this reminds me of some very old teletypewriters were adjusted using a tuning fork. I'm just fascinated of the liminal space between simple, analog things and digital data.
@midoriya-shonen Жыл бұрын
I'm.....actually really emotional about those first recordings. It feels so delicate, so special, to hear the oldest human sound that we have access to. The fact that you have to strain your ears a little bit, to reach past the imperfect recording to hear just the faintest recognizable melodies is so precious and amazing. It feels like I'm reaching backwards in time to catch just a glimpse of this very real, very tactile world which is so similar and yet so different to our own. It's different than listening to a modern recording, which sounds so exact that it's easy to forget that it's a recording and not just a part of our natural environment. But this feels like transportation to me. Time travel. Thanks, Joe.
@epicm999 Жыл бұрын
Oddly enough, I also feel a sense of "you're not supposed to be listening to these" with how distorted the audios are. It's insane to think that that's audio from 1860. Decades past what we were taught.
@IstasPumaNevada Жыл бұрын
I get that same sort of feeling. Also that demonstration of the computer 'singing' "Daisy Bell" in 1961. (Easy to find on KZfaq, 'first computer to sing - daisy bell' )
@epicm999 Жыл бұрын
@@IstasPumaNevada I get that exact same feeling with that song. It's like hearing someone sing for the first time ever after being taught how to sing.
@OriginalCreatorSama Жыл бұрын
A physical memory of a sound. It's beautiful. A strange kind of art. Like cave paintings. The audio equivalent of "I was here". ❤
@NautilusGuitars Жыл бұрын
Beautifully stated. You managed to eloquently describe a very enigmatic feeling I've felt on several occasions. That peek behind the curtain that we were never intended to see. It's truly something special, and pulls out some really strong yet mysterious emotions. It's such a unique experience, and there are literally only a few things on earth that can invoke those feelings. In a way, it's like ancient art, but if the art wasn't visible to the naked eye and took chemical analysis to reveal it, and it turns out to be a photorealistic depiction of a real persons face staring back at you. Really hauntingly beautiful stuff.
@tommytwotacos8106 Жыл бұрын
The idea that we wrenched this man's voice from the oblivion in which it rested for over a hundred years is absolutely wild. What a tribute to the power of science and imagination. It's not just inspiring, it's a harbinger of hope. It makes you think that if we can do unimaginably crazy shit like that, then maybe we do have what it takes to overcome our problems and survive past the confluence of self-made calamities with which now we find ourselves engaged.
@TheSkystrider11 ай бұрын
I agree, friend! Today we look back on the achievements of our ancestors with pride because they contributed to the amazing advancements we benefit from now. Will people in the future look back on this time period in disgust or pride for how bad or how good we did at shifting from unsustainable growth to circular economies that puts value on ecosystem resources/services? Time will tell. Have you seen some of the more recent Star Trek, like I think in year 2450 or so and they reflect on our time: "how did humanity ever survive and get out of their self destructive patterns"! 😅
@pernguin172411 ай бұрын
With how dreary so many things seems to be, it's things like this which brings back that sense of wonder and joy for the enginuity that humans are capable of. To think that I can listen to audio from over 150 years ago is mind boggling.😊
@TheNickleChick11 ай бұрын
Dinosaurs went extinct, so did large bugs and a trillion other things we have no names for. Humans arent that special. I say this as a sci fi fan. We dont need to be here that long. We are animals. Smart animals, but animals.
@HeathOakrayzy11 ай бұрын
Great comment Tommy
@2727daqwid9 ай бұрын
Pessimist here:not if we nuke ourselves into nothingness some time into the future.. Which may be the case, if you look into what is happening around the world. Cold war 2.0 but with way more powerful weapons and impossible to intercept delivery systems for those weapons.
@SlideRSB Жыл бұрын
That sine wave from the tuning fork is more akin to something called pilot tone rather than time code. Pretty remarkable how stable the reproduction is.
@stuartlacey677 Жыл бұрын
Fun fact, the oldest person to ever be recorded was actually helmuth von moltke "the elder", the prussian field marshal who led the Franco prussian war and helped unite Germany, he was born in 1800 in the Holy Roman Empire, he was ironically also a very quiet person in life even tho we can still hear his voice over 200 years after his birth
@kooolainebulger8117 Жыл бұрын
any way to listen to it on youtube?
@mj.l Жыл бұрын
@@kooolainebulger8117if you’d typed his name into the yt search function, you would’ve had an answer which would’ve taken less effort than typing that
@brianedwards7142 Жыл бұрын
Copy/paste his name into the search box.@@kooolainebulger8117
@amishrobots Жыл бұрын
that was one of my favourite techniques shown in an episode of "Burn Notice" ,, something he did once, and then never used or mentioned that technique again
@ModernEphemera Жыл бұрын
@@kooolainebulger8117Yeah I found it
@185MDE Жыл бұрын
“I am going to record this and go viral on KZfaq someday!” - Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville 1860
@sw40c Жыл бұрын
😂🤣😂🤣
@Sgt-Gravy Жыл бұрын
Need a picture & then you can create a meme lol
@ohkee Жыл бұрын
This ep was superb!❤🎉
@sahilx4954 Жыл бұрын
damn😂😂😂
@edsmelly Жыл бұрын
Why is no one asking about the privacy sock? I seriously need one of those.
@chayadol Жыл бұрын
The more I think the more I'm super happy in fact that the first human voice ever record could also be the first human singing music that ever record as well. Art really something that stay with us since the very beginning.
@yvesbrunet7634 Жыл бұрын
@JoeScott - I'm sure someone has already pointed it out but listening to the first recording, you mentioned that there were no words but the words to the song are clearly audible and you can even make out the rolling-R of "Pierrot". This recording is amazing! Thanks for speaking about this.
@fernandt2 Жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@unclesaboin Жыл бұрын
I noticed the same thing. They still rolled the R back then. My ancestors came to North America from France in the 1650s and we still roll the R in my dialect of French. I can make out the words in the recording, but I'm not sure that I could if I didn't know the song already.
@bacicinvatteneaca Жыл бұрын
@@unclesaboin that's not (the one in the recording, I mean) what's generally referred to as a rolled R, it's just a different type of guttural R, like the one of Georges Brassens. The original R was like in Italian,
@unclesaboin Жыл бұрын
@@bacicinvatteneaca, it sounded like a rolled R to me at first, but it's so muffled that it's hard to really tell. Now that I listen to it again after you pointed it out, I think you're correct. He does what I call gargling the R. There are some accents around where I live where they pronounce the R that way. We refer to that as "parler gras" (fat speech). Where I'm from we roll the R (pronounced with the tongue like the Italians rather than with the throat like in modern French).
@JSLRousseau8 ай бұрын
Yes, I can clearly hear "Au clair de la lune, mon ami Pierrot". The speed seems way too slow though, and it's much easier to hear it at 1.75x or 2x speed, where the cadence is closer to a normal song.
@andrewbabb2510 Жыл бұрын
As I recall, the CIA imbedded a small prism into the panes of glass that were supplied to the Soviet Embassy in DC. From some distance away they pointed an invisible laser at the prism and - because the plate of glass vibrated whenever there was talking inside the room it was installed for - they could record conversations without being in or near the room. The visible microphone seems to just be an improvement on that idea.
@davidmcgill100011 ай бұрын
And the Soviets gave the US "The Thing", an unpowered wireless listening device.
@Andrey_Gysev11 ай бұрын
@@davidmcgill1000 I remember Soviets in late ussr also built whole embassy as a giant listening device. A structure of a building was a resonator for sounds that was collected in a foundation by wireless devices.
@itoibo420811 ай бұрын
the story that i read was that a passive resonator was put into a sculpture/envraving that was hung on a wall, and there was/is also the use of lasers to read audio off of windows. in the video, they step it up and focus on an object beyond the window, which is apparently designed to deter laster listening off of the window itself.
@houseoft.j.1485 Жыл бұрын
Oh Joe scott.... we need more like you. Never stop doing what you do. The "privacy" sock bit was great.
@cynhanrahan4012 Жыл бұрын
Not quite the Get Smart Cone of Silence, but better looking.
@tomatoisred6966 Жыл бұрын
I love how he's always so woke and politically correct.
@jordanliszewski6549 Жыл бұрын
Getting click baity. Where is the creepy part in this video??? Very misleading
@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1245 Жыл бұрын
@@tomatoisred6966 woke and politically correct = not racist or homophobic
@Neojhun Жыл бұрын
@@tomatoisred6966 Dude "PC" is dead, have you been living under a rock?
@DaveTexas Жыл бұрын
Small correction - reel-to-reel 1/4" tape decks were made for home use starting in the 1950s. My dad had one before I was born (1967) and they’d been around for quite a long time before that. Your 1972 date might be for the first quadraphonic deck. Reel-to-reel decks for home use were monophonic at first, then stereophonic by 1957 or 1958. Quadraphonic came along in the early 1970s.
@zeno2712 Жыл бұрын
Yes. Reel-to-reel recorders were around a long time before 1972!
@squirlmy Жыл бұрын
DECK, he used the term, deck, basically the precursor to standard tape cassettes. That's what came along in the 70s.
@squirlmy Жыл бұрын
Reel-to-reel was the 40s, what he's referencing is what immediately preceded 8-track and "compact cassettes". As a means of mass distribution, reel-to-reel only ever had a small niche, and it's a complex one relative to other mediums the public would recognize. Most of us don't know or remember "tape decks", but it does fit next to other tape mediums.
@Lili-xq9sn Жыл бұрын
That's what I thought because my grandpa had one in the 1960s for sure... possibly earlier.
@joshuarosen465 Жыл бұрын
The Germans had tape recordings during WW2. Ampex copied it after the war and introduced reel to reel tape recorders in the US.
@jldwolfe Жыл бұрын
I love how he figured out that he needed to add the tuning fork. That alone was an amazing achievement. He had absolutely no way of knowing this ahead of time and never got a chance to use it, yet came up with a perfect timing device for play back.
@riphopfer581611 ай бұрын
The tuning fork idea is brilliant! In fact, audio engineers have historically recorded a 1kHz ‘reference tone’ on the beginning couple of feet of a reel of tape. Its purpose is exactly the same: calibration of audio equipment, to ensure everything is running at the correct speed, etc.
@reaganharder14809 ай бұрын
reminds me a little of the rising sine tone that I used to hear a bunch at the start and end of cassette tapes. Not all of them had it, but a good number did. The thing is, those ones weren't a 1Khz tone for calibration, they seemed more like a 20-20k sweep. I still don't exactly know why they were there on consumer tapes (maybe it has something to do with some Dolby noise suppression?), but it was a kinda charming part of listening to tape.
@msthedrick Жыл бұрын
Hi Joe, Offering a minor correction to this excellent work: Alexander Graham Bell’s cousin was named Chichester Bell (not Chinchester Bell), and their invention was named the Graphophone ( not Gramaphone) Source: worked for Dictaphone Corporation, which evolved from Bell’s Volta Laboratories.
@mdmn-ARCA Жыл бұрын
I went down a big rabbit hole on this a few years back, became just obsessed with the earliest sound recordings, photographs and films for a solid couple of months. When this recording was first revealed it would nearly always get played at 2x speed, and most people would then assume that's how it sounded. Glad to see you didn't fall into that trap.
@VikingTeddy Жыл бұрын
I wonder if there is some way for nature to record soundwaves from our enviroment, that would then be somehow "frozen" like an audio fossil? Probably not, but the video reminded me of the cosmological soundwaves, which is one way nature preserves a recording.
@calebmcnevin Жыл бұрын
@@VikingTeddyI feel like I remember something like ancient pottery that had recorded vibrations from a reed that was in contact with it, but that likely wouldn't have saved any useful information
@ambulocetusnatans Жыл бұрын
@@calebmcnevin Yes back in the 80s there was a hypothesis that a cetrtain vase with a spiral pattern that was created with a reed, and that maybe the sound could be heard. I turned out that it was not possible, but a ScienceFiction author wrote a short story based on the idea, and people got all "Mandela Effect" with it, so it became urban legend.
@cth0nic668 Жыл бұрын
@@VikingTeddy interesting idea, have a similar idea that atoms maybe have subatomic particles that possibly keep track of a limited number of past atomic states that the particle has been in. If such a thing was true, it would in the VERY far future be entirely possible to reconstruct a limited amount of the past via digital reconstruction of atoms in past atomic states. You could directly view the past through atoms themselves. You could reconstruct people, you could do a lot theoretically, practically what you could do with it, is another matter. Too far into the future for us to really understand or even posit anything of value beyond this in my mind.
@tortysoft Жыл бұрын
I think Nature has done something like this in Birds. Many birds can reproduce sounds they have heard - I don't think the mechanism has been deeply investigated.
@SiiriCressey Жыл бұрын
The point in one of the Au Clair De La Lune recordings where it gets fuzzier (probably because he blew harder into the mouthpiece) gave me shivers. I have done pretty much the same thing.
@AaronKelley1969 Жыл бұрын
The first I ever heard of laser recording was in a Tom Clancy novel some 30ish years ago speaking of how they had to develop special curtains to keep the Soviets from recording secret meetings off the vibrating glass panes. It's one of the reasons why the most secret meetings are held in windowless interior rooms now.
@donaldknowlton3179 Жыл бұрын
I remember a story about recording keystrokes of famous pianists even though they had no way to decode them. Each key had a needle that dipped into mercury to activate a writing pin which was recorded on a moving roll of paper. While this sounds like a player piano. It also recorded how fast and hard each key press was because the signal depended on how far the pin dipped into the mercury, thereby increasing conductivity.
@jarl_fontan Жыл бұрын
i got sick in 2019 and have sort of deteriorated slowly ever since. Your videos have been some of the most pleasant experiences I have had during this time and I am very grateful, and very proud of you for your work and dedication. Watching you and learning new things or exploring some of my interests has helped distract me from the less bearable things I am dealing with, and for that I will always be happy to see you succeed. Your videos are not only entertaining and educational, but they are very well made, and you make it look easy despite the quality proving it must be very hard work. Thank you, Joe, for being a light in the dark.
@maszlagma Жыл бұрын
I hope you'll find a path to recovery soon ❤
@annahappen7036 Жыл бұрын
I hope the coming months bring you good health and happiness.
@Roch_C Жыл бұрын
its crazy how clear the recording is. even if you hadn't said what song that was i could 100% make it out as "au claire de la lune". i grew up with my mom singing that lullaby nearly every day.
@wintermute5127 Жыл бұрын
Hey Joe The technique of using a light beam to remotely record sound probably originated with Léon Theremin in the Soviet Union at or before 1947, when he developed and used the Buran eavesdropping system.[1] This worked by using a low power infrared beam (not a laser) from a distance to detect the sound vibrations in the glass windows.[1][2] Lavrentiy Beria, head of the KGB, had used this Buran device to spy on the U.S., British, and French embassies in Moscow. From Wikipedia. Also see the Laser Doppler vibrometer for similar.
Жыл бұрын
Is that what James Bond used in a Spectre movie (scene on a rooftoop, just after openning scene)?
@samuelgonzalez8480 Жыл бұрын
Is that the guy who also invented the theremin musical instrument?
@Vizivirag Жыл бұрын
@@samuelgonzalez8480yes. Later in life he was coerced for working the Soviet Union.
@lindaseel9986 Жыл бұрын
If these walls could talk...🤔
@pyro-millie5533 Жыл бұрын
Is this the same Theremin as “guy who invented the Theremin” instrument?
@canadianavenger11 ай бұрын
I seem to remember hearing a story several years back, where they were able to recover audio from scratches had been made with a stylus like tool in ancient Greek pottery. So the record may actually be thousands of years older.
@BaharJennifer9 ай бұрын
True. I think the first one was reel to reel and made by 1972
@HawkFest Жыл бұрын
10:45 being a francophone, actually, although muffled we can clearly hear the words "au clair de la Lune", then "mon ami Pierro"... Fascinating, thank you !
@MiritaMoku Жыл бұрын
9:56 There are words ! 'Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Pierrot. Prête-moi (cut)'. 'La Lune' and the rolled R of Pierrot are quite clear (for a native French speaker's ear)
@petezero0 Жыл бұрын
There is a short story by Gregory Benford from 1979 called "Time Shards" where a researcher recovers thousands-of-year-old sound from a piece of pottery thrown on a wheel and inscribed with a point as it spun. If I remember correctly they hear the potter and another person speaking.
@carolinecampbell1250 Жыл бұрын
Ooh, glad you mentioned this. I will look up that short story.
@yopassthefuckinsalt922 Жыл бұрын
Well, i just read it, and it kinda made me want to cry. thanks for mentioning it :^)
@nik_cage Жыл бұрын
I've heard that that story wasn't actually true
@davidanderson_surrey_bc Жыл бұрын
It was later confirmed as Tony Bennett's earliest known recording.
@artturihautanen Жыл бұрын
@@nik_cageYes: It's a work of fiction later passed on as fact. It's not true.
@grandpalarry7776 Жыл бұрын
Actually, the first reel-to-reel tape recorder was invented in Germany in the late 1920s. It definitely predated the cassette and 8-track tape formats.
@JosePineda-cy6om Жыл бұрын
yes. Akio Morita, the founder of Sony, talks about that in his self biography "made in japan - the Sony way": the tech for such recordings was one of the technological transfers that imperial Japan got from their German allies in WW2. It was used mostly on thin metallic cable, it was after the war that Morita and his buddies were trying to improve upon it, when they realized quality would be improved a hundred times by recording on a tape, rather than a thin cable. They tried it, it worked, and one of Sony's first successful products was born: Japan's tribunals would buy these machines to record the trials uninterrupted and latter the tachygraphers would record everything in the regurar way. This was much needed as after the war Japan had an accute lack of tachygraphers atd this was causing a real bottleneck for justice system. Latter these tapes were used by colleges to teach foreign languages
@Ac3sdg Жыл бұрын
Exactly my thoughts
@Ac3sdg Жыл бұрын
Exactly my thoughts
@Karlfalcon Жыл бұрын
Was about to say, I have a reel to reel deck my Grandfather bought in the '60s, and reels of tape he recorded in the '50s. Consumer tape machines far predate the 1970s!
@Bowlfrog44 Жыл бұрын
Also the "Visual Microphone" isn't exactly the first thing that can pickup sound through things, although it is very impressive. There is a device used by police in movies and tv shows (that turns out to be real) that can record and play audio from a much longer distance than a regular microphone and through a closed window since some sound would travel through that already, it just makes it a volume that can be heard easier. So basically when he says "...does it mean anybody can just point a camera through my window at a plant in the room and hear everything I'm saying?" The answer is yes, but they could already do that with something other than a camera for a while now.
@Stephan515011 ай бұрын
That first sound recording is something else, you can even hear him rolling his R when he says Pierrot, just wow!
@harmstrongg Жыл бұрын
14:45 Fun fact, highly secure facilities (like Lockheed Skunkworks, etc) have devices mounted to exterior windows to introduce random vibrations in the glass as well as tinting to reduce/distort one-way light transmission specifically to avoid this method of attack. Some secure government facilities also pump white noise into the interior space that is inaudible to humans and has randomly variable frequencies. This attack vector is old, like 50s old.
@reaganharder14809 ай бұрын
I'm not sure the camera attack vector is 50s old, but using a laser to detect vibrations off a window is definitely old, and technologically incredibly simple.
@jimking8342 Жыл бұрын
9:26 "...now considered to be the oldest recording ever made of the human voice, it was recorded on April 9 1860 and it sounds like this: " *Yoda* "Always two there are, a master and an apprentice" Best timing for an ad, ever
@marcusaurelius49 Жыл бұрын
It is amazing how close he was to inventing the phonograph. He just got too fixated on the visual “reading” of the audio waves to have considered reversing the process to recreate the recorded sound Edit: spy agencies invented the vibrating objects method of sound recording decades ago. They used lasers pointed at objects like lamp shades through windows to eavesdrop on their subjects from nearby buildings or bushes.
@Me-da-Ghost Жыл бұрын
But they don't even need lasers now
@arniespace Жыл бұрын
Didn't the Russian's spy on the American embassy using the vibration of the glass in the windows? Also, my dog can hear every word I say in the house when she is outside, I think it is because of the glass vibrating, but I can't verify that.
@RakkaSan7219 Жыл бұрын
The Soviets invented a " bug " they put inside a U.S. Seal as A gift to head guy in U.S. Embassy in Moscow?? Maybe another city..... But anyway it took no battery or electricity.... Just sound vibration somehow caused to to send the sound to where ever KGB was recording it. Took awhile to locate it after US figured out the reds had to be money them cause they kept heading us off on stuff us was doing
@wawfulpawt2763 Жыл бұрын
Did the 1860's lasers use a 9volt?
@chadthomasriggs Жыл бұрын
No, they used lightning jumping off a key tied to a string.
@1three7 Жыл бұрын
One cool advancement you didn't cover was a recent study mapping the audio cortex of patients with metal probes in their brain. I think they were already there for their epilepsy but the researchers used it to map what they heard and recreate it. They had them listen to Pink Floyd and recreated the song based on brain activity. They literally read their mind. It's wild.
@vyor8837 Жыл бұрын
Sadly it wasn't super accurate
@1three7 Жыл бұрын
@@vyor8837 no not at all. You could barely tell what it was. But you could tell. Like the first recordings in this video they didn't sound clear but they are still impressive
@vyor8837 Жыл бұрын
@@1three7 yeah, but the main problem is that, unlike this technology, more sensors and even more *accurate* sensors don't help fidelity much.
@1three7 Жыл бұрын
@@vyor8837 well no, every person's brain is unique and learns how to process audio information in its own way. More sensors isn't the right approach but we probably will figure out ways to improve the clarity. Although I'm not sure that's actually a good thing lol
@vyor8837 Жыл бұрын
@@1three7 ideally it gets good enough to control a computer by thinking at it, but still requiring putting something on.
@totalbiscuit4758 Жыл бұрын
By a strange coincidence, 'Claire de la lune' is remarkably similar to an early music pavane written in the 16th century -- and also the first piece of music I learned when I was learning to read music in the fourth grade, in the mid 1960's. I've been playing music for nearly sixty years now, play at least a dozen instruments, and have studied French traditional music (of the Auvergne) for years -- but I never knew it was a popular (children's?) song! Thanks, Joe! I always learn something weird from you -- but this time it was weirder than usual!
@honilock577 Жыл бұрын
So the first recorded sound was a podcast. Great to see how far we've come since then
@xtinealto Жыл бұрын
As always, great video! Being a french speaker, I can confirm that you can indeed hear the words Au....clair....de....la...lun-e...mon...ami...Pierrot. He's singing very slowly, but the words are distinct. So cool!
@Vizivirag Жыл бұрын
And he uses the hard 'r' sound like Edith Piaf
@laurencepaille5753 Жыл бұрын
@@ViziviragIn french the r is alway said that way
@grandsome1 Жыл бұрын
Exactement!
@salladinthegreat Жыл бұрын
C’est exactement ce que j’allais dire ! You can hear the words and it’s a impressive for such an old recording. Bien joué Édouard t’étais un bon 🫡
@Jmcinally94 Жыл бұрын
Yeah I was surprised when he said there weren't any words, when I could pick up everything he said. Maybe it's a brain filling in the gaps because I know what it's meant to sound like, but I think that still counts.
@halvolta8526 Жыл бұрын
That clip you played of Edison reciting a Mary had a little lamb was not the original recording but a re-enactment he did several decades later
@shawn.the.alien423 Жыл бұрын
Correct. None of the recordings made on Edison's first machine exist into the present day, due to both them being on tin foil and due to it being impossible to replace back onto the machine once removed. This is why we have verified accounts of Edison taking his phonograph to the White House and demonstrating it to then-president Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1870s, but the first recording we have of a sitting president is that of Benjamin Harrison from 1889-90.
@kirbymarchbarcena Жыл бұрын
130 years from now, the patent for that privacy tube will still be under Joe Scott's name.
@davidanderson_surrey_bc Жыл бұрын
Because nobody else will want it?
@DruNature Жыл бұрын
I am a musician, audio engineer and producer and I live for recording and listening to music, so really I have these guys to thank for so much! Eduoard-Leon Scott De Martinville is a legend and It's really incredible to learn about him! Holy moly that's the third video I've seen today that mentions the ability to record sound from video, insane!
@WorldWeaver Жыл бұрын
Listening to those recordings is really interesting because of how imperfect they are. It's like, even back then we were all still human.
@meola69420 Жыл бұрын
During the scale, I couldn't really put my finger on it, but if I am not mistaken, it almost sounded similar to a modern microphone clipping (too much input). It seems like it happens at vocal peaks much like clipping would happen today, kinda nifty!!
@johncliffalvarez6513 Жыл бұрын
I can’t stress enough how much I love this channel.
@SofaKingShit Жыл бұрын
Relax. Try to not stress.
@johncliffalvarez6513 Жыл бұрын
@@SofaKingShit Too late!
@i-love-comountains3850 Жыл бұрын
Same😂
@diyeana Жыл бұрын
1) That skit had me in stitches. I had to go back to watch it twice. 2) For some reason it blows my mind that recorded sound started that long ago. I thought it was in the 20th Century. 3) I couldn't stop giving your plant side eye towards the end ...
@Formosus2001 Жыл бұрын
Your best one in a while: so well crafted, written, and paced. Hats off! Super interesting too of course.
@larrypanellajazzsaxophone8013 Жыл бұрын
The first reel to reel decks were much earlier than 1972. My mother worked in the late 1940's for a man named Charlie French at a studio with the first Ampex reel to reel recorder in Boston. I also had a friend who had a large tube amplified reel to reel that he got from his grandfather that was probably made in the 1950's so I'm not sure where you got your info for that. Even the Beatles recorded on an early 4 track reel to reel before 1972. Otherwise, this is an very interesting video.
@davidpye200211 ай бұрын
Yea, reel-to-reel decks have been around since WWII. It was invented by the Germans - the AEG Magnetophon. From Wikipedia: Magnetophon was the brand or model name of the pioneering reel-to-reel tape recorder developed by engineers of the German electronics company AEG in the 1930s, based on the magnetic tape invention by Fritz Pfleumer. AEG created the world's first practical tape recorder, the K1, first demonstrated in Germany in 1935 at the Berlin Radio Show.
@animeloveer979 ай бұрын
also there were wire recordings to using steel wires on a reel
@h7opolo Жыл бұрын
9:34 thank you so much, joe scott, for sharing with us this historically significant audio.
@gerGoPrint3D Жыл бұрын
Did you notice the moving plants at 14:54? Just after he talked about recording voice by monitoring moving objects in the room?
@joescott Жыл бұрын
Hehe, I've had to run the A/C because of the extreme heat and it's been blowing the plant around.
@joemungus6063 Жыл бұрын
They were moving the whole time
@mcburcke Жыл бұрын
The "visual microphone" general concept has been used for governmental spying purposes for quite a while, but the ability to remotely scan individual objects as described in the video here is relatively new, especially the algorithm processing speed and sensitivity. Very cool, and very scary at the same time.
@Coconut-219 Жыл бұрын
Alot of passive 'bugs' worked using that method - but in electromagnetic rather than visual wavelengths.
@mcburcke Жыл бұрын
@@Coconut-219 There have also long been laser-based monitoring systems that can covertly "read" the vibrations from things like window glass and hard paneling etc. from a distance.
@joshjones6072 Жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking, I chuckled to myself about how that's been around for decades now.
@udhessi3444 Жыл бұрын
You can distinctly recognize the notes and rhythm (it's sung slowly) and make out the words. Vowels and voiced consonants (noticably m and n) came through, while voiceless consonnants (l, final r) are completely lost. Consistant with a low resolution recording, I'd say. Amazing 😮
@bacicinvatteneaca Жыл бұрын
L is a voiced consonant, though. Voiceless L is the one found in Welsh and Mesoamerican languages
@cynthiafisher3392 Жыл бұрын
10:05 Scott was trying to record when a fly buzzed by….
@davidfaraday7963 Жыл бұрын
Reel-to-reel tape recorders were available LONG before 1972! The German magnetophon, which is generally regarded as the original tape recorder, was developed in the late 1930s but was unknown outside Germany until the end of WW2. Recorders recording on steel tape had existed earlier, one example was the Blatnerphone which the BBC used for a while in the 1930s.
@thelaughinghyenas8465 Жыл бұрын
I was just going to say that. Absolutely correct.
@robsquared2 Жыл бұрын
I figured the first recording would be someone asking someone about their stagecoach's extended warranty.
@veenoir1991 Жыл бұрын
Lol why is this funny to me
@josephdavis9204 Жыл бұрын
"This notice serves to inform you that the factory warranty on your 1860 Stagecoach is expired or is due to expire based on date or mileage." 😅
@veenoir1991 Жыл бұрын
@josephdavis9204 they had a "horse fault" clause. "I do apologize for rear-ending you sir, my horse is quite rambunctious today."
@trevinbeattie4888 Жыл бұрын
I get the impression that M. Martinville had a better grasp of the science of sound than Mr. Edison did, but perhaps wasn’t as knowledgeable about mechanical engineering.
@UncleKennysPlace Жыл бұрын
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Implementation? Not so much.
@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Жыл бұрын
@@UncleKennysPlace Exactly. The perspiration part is where 99.999% of people fail.
@csweezey18 Жыл бұрын
@@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017Nah. Most people fail at the funding stage.
@squirlmy Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what that even means. I guess you're talking about everyone who has an interesting idea that they never work on? How about just being realistic about getting funding and getting enough money to pay people to work on an idea, and not ruin them also, or their lives. I wouldn't say the phonoautograph for example, died because of lack of effort. You're just beating that metaphor to death with "99.999%" bit. Maybe you should've put more "persperation" into it! 😉
@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Жыл бұрын
@@csweezey18That's nonsense.
@castinn Жыл бұрын
I believe the date of 1972 @13:23 for the first reel-to-reel tape decks is incorrect. I was living in Japan in 1958 and we bought a Teac tape deck and a Sony reel-to-reel recorder in 1960 and brought them back to the US in 1962. Smaller portable reel to reel units using approximately 5 inch reels were available in 1958.
@brandonlewis2599 Жыл бұрын
Yeah I had a couple of hand-me-down reel-to-reel machines that dated to at least 10 years before 1972, just based on the construction and materials used. One was a large unit for hi-fi systems, and could do 4-track recording. The other was a portable unit that came with its own microphone.
@ChaosPootato Жыл бұрын
That Au Clair de le Lune recording probably had words that got mangled by the low fidelity. (I'm French) I recognize the rolled Rs of "Pierrot" (the last word of the recording)
@Natediggetydog Жыл бұрын
11:11 That friend in the discord who won’t buy a real mic and is still using the one that broke weeks ago:
@jellyfishfingernail11 ай бұрын
BAHAHAHA
@matthewwriter9539 Жыл бұрын
1:25 ...to be fair, the same thing could basically be said about both the 1760s and the 2060s...the horse part makes it even more interesting.
@bobbyjackson4452 Жыл бұрын
There are laser-based listening devices that can be pointed at an exterior window to hear the sound inside the room. I saw something about it on an episode of the spy show, Burn Notice. I later did some Google searches about laser listening devices & saw that they do exist. By the way, "There Will be Squiggles" is actually the name of my heavy metal Air Supply tribute band. "All Out of Love" takes on an entirely new feeling when played on distorted guitars.
@JohnYowan Жыл бұрын
Just wanted to comment to say I appreciate all of the videos. I have been going through a lot of stressful stuff lately and these videos are a nice break. They're always entertaining and I get to learn so many cool new things. Thanks 🙂
@catserver8577 Жыл бұрын
Loved this one, finding the "firsts" of things is almost an obsession of mine. I personally think watching your videos is like being in a class taught by that "really cool" teacher. They are hard to come by, hope you keep going as long as KZfaq is a thing!
@DavidTucker85 Жыл бұрын
It's just amazing how smart people have always been
@christophermullins7163 Жыл бұрын
Smart ppl are immortal and were created during the big bang? Wow.
@ZikedY Жыл бұрын
@@christophermullins7163no no they caused the big bang for science
@mrpopo8298 Жыл бұрын
Joe, I was in the French Foreign Legion. We had to celebrate that war every year. There is a famous battle that took place in Camaron. It's similar to the Alamo in that people (legionnaires) were trapped in a fort and they held out until their ammo was spent, then they fixed bayonnets and charged to their deaths. But Mexicans captured a couple of them and let them go, saying "these are devils not men!", there is a famous wooden hand from the captain that fought there, which is like the holy grail of the Legion. Thought you might find that interesting.
@Cancoillotteman Жыл бұрын
Respect pour avoir servi dans la légion. I looked up at this battle and it seems the French army returned to the same place one year later and inflicted a harsh defeat onto the Mexicans.
@annenelson5656 Жыл бұрын
I don’t know about anyone else but I found that interesting. Thank you!
@davidanderson_surrey_bc Жыл бұрын
Texans: Remember the Alamo! French: Remember the ammo!
@Laura-kl7vi Жыл бұрын
Really liked this video. I appreciate you, Joe. Love what you focus on and how you do it.
@ironcito110111 ай бұрын
There are several sound technologies that I've seen pop up over the years, but they never seem to make it beyond demos. I remember that in the 90's, I bought a computer magazine (anyone remember those?) and it came with a CD. Among the stuff in that CD were recordings of what I believe was called holophonic sound. It was amazing. I recall one was the sound of someone shaking a box of matches and moving it around your head, and it actually sounded exactly like someone was doing it for real. Another was the sound as if you were getting a haircut, it gave me chills down my neck because it was so realistic. All over regular, cheap headphones. A few years later, I remember reading about directional ultrasound technology similar to the one mentioned at 13:35. They were building some sort of displays where people could hear the sound perfectly if they stood in front of the display and within a certain distance, but other people around it couldn't hear a thing. I don't know why neither of those ever took off.
@georgedavall944911 ай бұрын
Great comment!!!!!!!! I remember those mags with the CD’s, although never really played them.
@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 Жыл бұрын
It's astonishing that the actual timbre and presence of a human voice was recorded so long ago and can now be heard. It's rough, but it's unmistakably a human voice.
@nasis18 Жыл бұрын
Oh wow. Great video, Joe. I had no idea who Martinville was.
@bobcarn Жыл бұрын
I love the Cone of Silence 2.0 opener! That recording from 1860 is amazing. Sure you can't hear what's being sung, but it's unmistakable as a human voice. That's amazing!
@catastrophicfailure274511 ай бұрын
i never realized that that little song i learned at my piano lessons, my guitar classes, my middle school band practices was au clair de la lune. i've grown up with this song and never realized what it was called, or it's significance. i knew it must have been old and important since it was almost always one of the first songs i was taught whenever i picked up a new instrument (which i've done like seven times) and it's so fascinating how we can have something impact us so much and not even realize it
@blockybeanz9924 Жыл бұрын
HOLY CRAP AT 10:25 MY DOGS LOOKED UP
@andrasbiro3007 Жыл бұрын
It's theoretically possible that people accidentally recorded sound all the way back to ancient times. Potters work with spinning soft clay, which is capable of recording sound. If someone used just the right tool to work on the clay, it may have vibrated and accidentally recorded sounds. It's a very remote possibility, but billions of clay jars were made, so it could have happened. It would be really cool to hear ancient conversations.
@EinsteinsHair Жыл бұрын
The TV show Mythbusters tried to record sound that way and could not do it.
@izzmus Жыл бұрын
....I see my comment is redundant.
@jeffreyleonard7210 Жыл бұрын
"Ditto"
@evanmorris1178 Жыл бұрын
It should be how the ancient Greeks spun already glazed and fired ceramics on a wheel with a hard graver against them to cut accurate lines of decoration through the glaze. I read a short story where some researcher played back the groove and hear some sounds.
@wild360 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic work, and the playback of the etching from 1860 was eerily haunting. And oh, the device at 14:40...clandestine services across the world have had this tech for years if I'm not mistaken. That might be worth a show in and of itself!
@mikevandebunt811 Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Bouncing a laser off of a window can detect the vibrations caused by a conversation in the room on the other side of the window. Spy agencies now use heavy laminated (non-vibrating) glass in their office windows to prevent this type of eavesdropping.
@NeilConnor Жыл бұрын
Got me thinking about what products infomercials would advertise in 1860s. Thanks again for internal monologue food, Joe!!!
@AdventurousJohn Жыл бұрын
There is a possibly apocryphal story of a vase from mesopotamia (or - you know - "way back then") that LOOKS like it had a leaf make "squiggles" on it's surface as the vase spun (you know, as it picked up vibrations in the air). Audio engineers have tried to 'decode it", but it looks like there is not enough fidelity. but this may actually be the FIRST recording of sound - despite the fact that it's not recoverable.
@ve5cs Жыл бұрын
This is what I wanted to mention, but I thought I remembered listening to it and it being intelligible... guess not?
@ChicagoMel2311 ай бұрын
The Smithsonian has a few of this sort of recreated recording though
@paulm74911 ай бұрын
Yet...
@HossBlacksilver11 ай бұрын
I know that was something that happened in an episode of the X-Files.
@tttm9911 ай бұрын
Ah... Sumerian potter's wheel... I knew my silly Beethoven joke came from something I read... Lacking the "tuning fork", if the cadence/frequencies over time of the wheel could be deduced maybe they'll crack the code and hear some choice Sumerian cursing and swearing about art teacher thought about the sgwiggly line. 😁
@brennaturton6891 Жыл бұрын
That was so cool. Thanks for sharing all of that information and making this video. The new tech makes me think of an episode of Fringe where they take recreate a sound recording of what happened in a particular room from the pane of glass in the window. I got shivers when I you talked about it. Excellent video, Joe :)
@chrisklinetob7389 Жыл бұрын
This guy kills me ( in the good, laughing way). I love how he uses humor to keep listener's attention and it totally works for me! Keep it up!
@Ghozer Жыл бұрын
The visual microphone thing was expanded from an existing (equally as scary) tech, where they bounce a laser off a window, and then basically pick up the vibrations from the window to listen in to the room.... This has been around at least 10 years or so, I remember seeing it back in the early 2010's
@EinsteinsHair Жыл бұрын
Someone else left the same comment 7 hours ago, to your 6 hours ago. They got 22 comments. Soviets did it in the 1950s, public knowledge in the 80s, it was in an episode of MacGyver. I left the comment that I saw it in 1993 Season 2 Episode 1 of Highlander: The Series.
@nickolaswilcox425 Жыл бұрын
you could also do the reverse with images on crts, i had the chance to buy a computer prototype that was built to nullify that weakness, but the price was far past what i was willing to pay, i was primarily interested because it was an apple lisa not as much for it being a government endorsed prototype
@mq172 Жыл бұрын
13:22 I was a bit shocked to hear of the "first" reel to reel deck in 1972, because I have clear memories of my parent's TEAC tape deck which they purchased in Taiwan in 1968.
@Carole_Baskin Жыл бұрын
YT should really promote you more, great channel every episode is at worst interesting and always well told.
@SpiritmanProductions Жыл бұрын
So interesting and amazing to hear voices from so long ago. I had a crazy theory that we could perhaps cut open a stone that had been in a stone-age fire, the last time it was lit before they moved on, and measure nano-scale deviations in the crystal formations caused by ambient sound (e.g. speech) disturbing the molecules as it was cooling down. This would be linear, as the heat escaped the stone, and thus provide a soundtrack for a number of minutes. Not sure what the resolution would be, nor whether the sound waves would carry enough energy to cause detectable deviations. ;-)
@masscreationbroadcasts Жыл бұрын
7:44 Is it just me, or is he saying: "Mary had a little lamb, it squiggled quite at all, and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb would shoot us all" ?
@madameghostie Жыл бұрын
“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow, and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go”
@masscreationbroadcasts Жыл бұрын
@@madameghostie I prefer my interpretation. Reminds me of Isabelle and Doomguy.
@madameghostie Жыл бұрын
@@masscreationbroadcasts LOL
@joeaverage3444 Жыл бұрын
One thing - MP3 was introduced and formally standardized in 1991. It was the .mp3 suffix that was declared in 1995. Before 95, MP3 files typically carried the .bit suffix.
@carbon2858 Жыл бұрын
Winamp came out in 97 and I had some edm mp3's back then. Also Napster launched in 1999 which had tons of mp3's.
@SlyPearTree Жыл бұрын
I'm quite sure that reel to reel recording predate cassettes. Is Joe talking about something else? By the way I love that a French organization was called "S.E.I.N." as "sein" is "woman's breast" in french.
@Iam_Dunn Жыл бұрын
As a recording, mix and post audio engineer, I found this fascinating! Thank you! :) ❤ from 🇨🇦
@mellissadalby1402 Жыл бұрын
The origins of sound recording also resulted in the phrase "wxing up some riffs", which means to play music. The biggest reason that Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville was successful (to a point) is that he didn't know that he couldn't do it. This might sound like double talk, but the point is valid in terms of motivation. If he instead focused on all the limitations and the reasons why it wouldn't work, he never would have achieved what he did in fact achieve (because he didn't know any better in a way).
@squirlmy Жыл бұрын
Dude,! smh! the word "riff" started to be used by jazz musicians in the 30s; wax cylinders stopped being used around 1915. "Waxing up the riffs", isn't a phrase I've heard of, but whoever did make it up long, long after wax stopped being used in recordings. Or maybe you're just making it up... this is the internet. ☹️
@PhenomRom Жыл бұрын
@@squirlmyhow would you know
@nuke___8876 Жыл бұрын
The visual microphone isn't new at all and it's been used in espionage for a very long time. Granted, the old version uses a laser and you either have to point it through an open window or the glass of the window itself, but this isn't usually a problem 90% of the time if you set your angles up correctly.
@GreenskullAI Жыл бұрын
Genuinely fascinating. It's funny thinking about how we edit audio today. We don't really give it much of a second thought when we can perfectly record, edit, and share so efficiently.
@Ken-fh4jc9 ай бұрын
For anyone who doesn’t understand the genius idea of the tuning fork, depending how fast you play it back will change the pitch of the sound. So anyone in the future trying to listen can tell if they are playing it back correctly because the tune will be the proper music note.
@jasminestanbury9693 Жыл бұрын
Sign Language being humans first language is very likely as there are many advantages to using it over speaking. Im a CODA and Teacher of the Deaf and know alot about it. My favourite advantages is with babies they are able to express their needs and wants months before they are physically able to speak and it can jump start their language learning. Others are taking through windows and far distances( limited by eyesight), the silence for hunting/ similar things and tactile signing or signing on the hands and body means you can communicate in silence in the dark.
@undefined7141 Жыл бұрын
So that 9:44 was nightmare fuel.
@alecboi77711 ай бұрын
mosquito
@zizikitty Жыл бұрын
What do you mean not that many people are listening anymore. I love your content.
@dream__soda790011 ай бұрын
There’s something so eerie about listening to these recordings.
@ernestitoe Жыл бұрын
20 years or so years ago on CSI, Gil Grissom -- the leader of the team at that time -- discusses what he calls "acoustic archeology," i.e. extracting ambient sound from clay as it is being formed on the wheel. The case involved a murder in a home for special-needs people. One of the men had spun clay and used a paint brush on the outside to create grooves. Grissom used a laser to read the grooves and came up with a conversation that showed who the murderer was.
@BaharJennifer9 ай бұрын
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@kevinsayes Жыл бұрын
Love the historical, “oddity” story videos. Thanks Joe!
@pczYT Жыл бұрын
Assange mentioned, in an interview back in 2010, that the US government had a device that could read a conversation in a room from outside of the house, by capturing the window's vibration. So yes, they are probably already using this technology.
@gigglehertz Жыл бұрын
That has been publicly known since at least the 80's. The Puzzle Palace came out in 1982 (I read it in the late 80's) and explained how the NSA could basically eavesdrop on any electronic communication in the world. It let me down a rabbit hole of spy technology books and I read about the laser on the window bug. I can't remember if that was in the Puzzle Palace or another book but it would have been prior to 1990.
@yzenynot Жыл бұрын
Combine that with Carnegie Mellon University research into mapping human bodies through walls using WiFi signals and we're all pretty much screwed.
@Selfinflictedhummusrocket Жыл бұрын
@@yzenynotsignal jammers :)
@framegrace1 Жыл бұрын
Not sure why Assange mentioned it... Those are "laser microphones" and are an old tech, the Soviets started usin them it from the 50's, and you can make one for a few bucks and 0 electronic knowledge. You just need a laser pointer, a photoelectric cell and a earphone. Is that easy. They only work in flat surfaces and are not very sensible, but they were enough to get conversations that happened in front of a window. "The Bug" that was planted on USA embassy in Moscow, worked in a similar way, but using radio waves instead of light.
@sandrinowitschM Жыл бұрын
Bro, that's from an episode of MacGyver.
@BathBombTheRussians Жыл бұрын
If this was the first recording of a “human” voice. Where are the older recordings of nonhuman voices? 🤔
@koendos3 Жыл бұрын
One can argue that maybe the boom from a superpowerful volcanic explosion, maybe caused damaged to the environment (trees, etc.) One could argue that that tree “recorded” the sound of that boom.
@computerjantje Жыл бұрын
@@koendos3 good one :)
@DexyD20 Жыл бұрын
@@koendos3 imagine a sound so loud that you have to use many multiples of trees in order to record it😅🤣🙃 and then imagine that the sound is so loud that you need to make new technology of some kind of AI that can rebuild the original sound from fallen over trees in the forest inorder to remake it🤣😅🙃
@fabmediastudios3512 Жыл бұрын
Lol
@strangelic4234 Жыл бұрын
De Martinville didn't want to use his own voice initially, he was afraid the recording would fall into the hands of the British and be used for propaganda reasons. So he bought a trained parrot for the first recordings. It turned out that the parrot had been trained by what must have been a German pirate, as his speech consisted mostly of very angry sounding, foreign shouts. After the third "IHR WOHNSBERECHTIGUNGSSCHEINANTRAG IST ABGELEHNT SIE TAUSENDSAKRAMENTSSCHELM, VERLASSEN SIE MEIN BUREAU!!", de Martinville decided to do it himself. The parrot recordings still exist but the Académie Francaise keeps them in their vault below the Seine to protect the reputation of their country's inventors.