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Subject: [IP] Audio recording from - ancient Pompeii !!!
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:37:00 -0500
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Audio recording from - ancient Pompeii !!!
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From: Mike Cheponis <
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Date: February 18, 2006 2:48:00 PM PST
Subject: audio recording from - ancient Pompeii !!!
French archaeologists have taken pottery from ancient Pompeii and
played the grooves back like a record to get the sounds of the
pottery workshop, including laughter. Click "Telecharger la video" to
play the short video which contains a sample of the audio.
<
http://www.zalea.org/article.php3?id_article=496>
So Tom Edison was NOT the one to invent the Phonograph Recorder,
after all! (I guess we have to give him credit for inventing the
Phonograph Player, tho...)
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"Steven Pam" <steven [at] stevenpam.com.au>
Good work Sean,
It seemed quite obviously to be a hoax - if you think about the simple
science involved in making an audio recording - you need some way to
actually 'gather' the sound, not just a recording medium. So unless the
grooves were made by, say a small stick on the end of a large horn with a
membrane stretched across the opening, you wouldn't expect to record any
sound.
I couldn't find anything at
www.snopes.com, but didn't think of looking at
the museum of hoaxes.
Cheers,
SP
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