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> Hi, everybody!
>
> As usual, non specialized journalists include a lot of "hype" and "hot
> air" in their articles to attract the attention of readers.
>
> The cylinder Phonograph was invented by Edison in 1877, and the first
> prototype was built around December 4 of that year. He applied for a
> patent on December 24.
>
> Abraham Lincoln was very much dead by then, much less would you find
> recordings "from the early days of slavery".
>
> And we make fun of people who ask for motion picture archival footage
> of the American Civil War...
>
> These journalists deserve some kind of award.
>
> Jose Llufrio
> Technicolor East Coast, New York
>> Leon Scott is "reputed" to have recorded Lincoln in the White House
>> on his
>> Phonautograph.
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/scott.html
>> The earliest such device of which we have any actual knowledge is the
>> one constructed by De Kempelein of Vienna, who, in 1791,
>
>> On June 26, 1857, a French typographer, Leon Scott, deposited with
>> the Académie des Sciences a paper describing an invention which he
>> named the "Phonautograph.
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/recording/begun1.html
http://www.phonautograph.com/
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