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by liamssoft | February 20, 2007 at 02:09 am
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1877 - Edison made the first recording of a human voice ("Mary had a little lamb") on the first tinfoil cylinder phonograph Dec. 6 (the word "Halloo" may have been recorded in July on an early paper model derived from his 1876 telegraph repeater) and filed for an American patent Dec. 24. John Kruesi built this first practical machine Dec. 1-6 from a sketch given to him by Edison that was made Nov. 29 (not on "Aug. 12" that Edison mistakenly wrote on another sketch in 1917). When Kruesi heard Edison's first words Dec. 6, he exclaimed "Gott in Himmel!" (but these words for "God in Heaven" were not recorded and thus have been forgotten). Others before Edison had tried to record sound, but Edison and his tinfoil phonograph were the first to succeed.
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at 21:03 on March 5th, 2007
Why has this got every country in the tags. Doing this will make the tag function useless.
Please change it.
at 13:39 on March 6th, 2007
Thank you goldcoaster, Recording takes place in every country.
Kind regards
Liam
at 13:45 on March 6th, 2007
at 15:34 on March 6th, 2007
The tags need changing, they are wrong/misleading. What has con man Peter Foster got to do with this, or the word gay, or computer ZX Spectrum etc. etc.
at 14:46 on March 13th, 2008
Thank you goldcoaster
What has con man Peter Foster got to do with this, or the word gay.
Nothing.
at 16:01 on March 7th, 2007
Gold coaste is right. This is a form of tag spam
at 14:34 on March 13th, 2008
Thank you publicreader
Tag Spam" will be (or is) the practice of
associating unrelated content (pr0n links, adverts, viagra pill
adverts, press releases) with well-known tags.
This is not the case.
at 08:41 on September 20th, 2008
thanx you publicreader
at 07:31 on December 10th, 2008
Hmm, quite interesting. I've never known it's Edison who was the first to record a sound.