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“THIS IS A RECORDING…” (continued):
• Edison’s phonograph, as he dubbed his
new machine, proved that sounds could be
recorded and played over and over again.
But could it be put to any practical use, or
was it just a novelty item? Edison showed
remarkable vision, actually, when he listed
possible uses for his phonograph in 1878:
dictation without the need of a stenographer,
audio books for the blind, reproduction
of music, and even toys that could make
sounds.
• Of all the uses envisioned by Edison for the
phonograph, the first one that became a reality
was recorded music. For the first time, an
orchestra or singer could be heard whenever
the listener chose, rather than having to rely
on an in-person performance or a live radio
When rock band Queen recorded the operatic sector of their classic hit “Bohemian Rhapsody,” they’d broadcast. The key problem was that there
over-dubbed their voices so many times that that particular section of the tape was transparent - was no way to duplicate the wax cylinders
they’d worn all the oxide off. that held the recordings. To make multiple
copies of a recording, an artist had to perform
the song additional times for each instance.
• Until the 1930s, recording studios were
acoustical, not electrical. That is, there were
no microphones or amplifiers. An orchestra
simply gathered in a soundproof room around
a large acoustic horn (similar to the horns atop
old Victrolas) and played. That’s why any
recordings you hear today of that era sound
tinny and shrill; there was no “separation” of
the different instruments and/or voices, and
no volume control, either.
• Today, whether it’s a full orchestra or a four-
piece rock band, most musicians wear high-
tech headphones while recording. This allows
them to hear the backing music while they’re
playing along. The recording engineer is
thus able to record each segment of the song
separately. Then, it’s left to the producer
to take each individual recorded track and
“mix” it together in the proper sequence and
volume to make a finished song.
• In 1898, Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen
developed a machine that could record
sounds onto tautly stretched piano wire. Two
years later, he combined his recorder with
that other recent invention, the telephone,
and produced a very early prototype of the
modern answering machine.
• Poulsen’s Telegraphone Company went
bankrupt just a few years after he first
introduced his recorder, mainly because
there was no real practical use (at the time)
for a machine that recorded telephone
conversations. Too bad Poulsen couldn’t
have held on just a few years longer. Once
the condenser microphone was introduced
in 1916, a whole new market opened up for
telephone recorders – that of wiretapping.
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Guide for Young Adults on Their Own,” by Dara out.
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• Tax chart showing what take-home salaries really students polled said they learned money management
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• A credit-card chart showing how long it takes to this book.
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• If your take-home pay leaves something to be desired, • In 1981, two minor-league baseball teams, the
you probably won’t be surprised to learn that the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red
English word “salary” is derived from the Latin word Sox, played what might be the longest game in
for the allowance provided to Roman soldiers to buy baseball history -- a full 32 innings. And after all
salt. that, there wasn’t even a winner: The game ended
in a 2-2 tie.
• It was Academy Award-winning comedian and
actor George Burns who made the following sage • If you needed more evidence that we live in a
observation: “You know you’re getting old when you materialistic society, consider this: Statistics show
stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can that more people in America go to shopping
do while you’re down there.”
• The long tails that are spread out in the sky behind
appearance of a table, but that wasn’t originally
comets are vapor trails, but the vapor is spread
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