1878 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN TINFOIL PHONOGRAPH...PART 2!

[@ThrillzTheGreatest]

Everybody says Mary Had a little lamb like they are the magic words to make this work lol

[@StupidBorbGuy]

I guess so but it is the same words that Thomas Edison spoke into the horn when making the phonograph, in which many people think that's the first recording ever, but it actually is from 1860, a recording of Au Claire De La Lune

[@poohbearrichie72]

That is truly awesome :)

[@wernerempire]

Hi. Impressive results. Would you mind sharing any details on how you built this? I would like to try and build one myself. I'm especially curious on what you used for your diaphragm and stylus, and also the mandrel. Your results are some of the best I've heard from phonographs like this on KZbin.

[@CG19781]

Hello wernerempire, sorry I am only replying now (a whole year later LOL!), but I was totally unaware of a setting on my channel video options that actually "blocked" me from seeing/replying to comments on my videos!! Only figured out last night now to "unlock" it LOL! Crazy I know! Anyway... Regarding your question, I made contact with a Mr. Charles Smith in the USA in February 2011 and he assisted me in a kind of 'online training' session that lasted almost a whole year till April 2012. We corresponded by email; I sent him schematic diagrams / pictures of what I drew and he would 'yes' and 'no' and give advice, as I live in South Africa and he in USA! Had to make them easy to understand as I couldn't sit next to him in real life! But we got it made in the end. Here is a link from a website on how I found him as he had made 6 models of the Scientific American. www.phonozoic.net/tinfoil/index.html I had failed again and again trying just to build a WORKING tinfoil phonograph of any model! I wanted to give up so many times until I found Mr. Smith!! It took me 23 years (1989-2012), but he was very patient and assisted me! If you make contact with him, he may send you the original 1878 plans which appeared as part of a supplement to the Scientific American magazine. Here is a PowerPoint presentation on my 23 dream to get a working machine made which I presented in Cape Town in 2014 (IASA Conference) and again in 2017 (SASA Conference)! www.saarchivist.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Christopher-Grov%C3%A9-ONE-SMALL-STEP-FOR-TINFOIL.pdf Regarding the diaphragm material it was a rectangle of a kind of metallic "sheet" material, not sure as it was posted to me with all the other parts to assemble. For the stylus, it was an old gramophone player stylus cut in half that you glued into place in the stylus bar. The mandrel I believe is made of solid steel with a grooved thread cut into it. Hope this helps :-)

[@lowlightpiano7110]

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[@rajeshdeokule109]

So clear voice ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤from India

[@Kloiyd]

I don't really know much about phonograms, but this video is very cool.

[@ruwanweerakkody5411]

Amazing. I saw this on google once (a decade ago) and I thought it was a really cool phonograph design.

[@CG19781]

Hi! Many thanks for your kind comment! :-)

[@lowlightpiano7110]

Repent and trust in Jesus. Hes the only way. We deserve Hell because weve sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him. John 3:16 Romans 3:23❤😊❤❤

[@Car1Sagan]

That and wax cylinders were among the earliest recording media... however the first recording media was I think charcoal on paper. It wasn't realized back then, but recent computer technology was able to decipher the recordings and play them back. Saw a fairly new documentary about this recent discovery.

[@tsuwaque]

Was it made by Patrick Feaster?

[@tsuwaque]

Was it made by Patrick Feaster?

[@gign_9891]

Programmers recording using this be like: Hello world! x5

[@DifferentSaturner]

Thank you. This is how we saved voices. Now, I wonder if we could go back film those events. (Fri 29 Apr 2022 12h46)

[@TheSection59]

that's amazing!

[@JohnDoeXYZ]

This technology is making a comeback with hipsters. There's nothing like listening to Modest Mouse in the original tin cylinder format.

[@brandonleague3641]

Channeling Thomas Edison. Well played, sir.

[@hern01134]

no one ever says something else for the recording

[@mattssonfelix3882]

One thing i don't understand.... In EVERY SINGLE tinfoil phonograph-video the hosts do the same effing recording, the "Mary Had A Little Lamb" It's driving me nuts... Is it cuz it's an easy strip to carve into the tinfoil or something?

[@vvmax4375]

Finally someone else who has noticed this, I’m sick of it

[@hayden9876]

In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first machine that could record sound and play it back. On the first audio recording Edison recited, “Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white as snow.

[@mattssonfelix3882]

@@hayden9876 aahh, interesting, I didn't know that👌 still a bit annoying that every single one does the same thing, but thanks for that, new info for me

[@mattssonfelix3882]

@@vvmax4375 I know right

[@themagicminstrels476]

@@mattssonfelix3882 they do it so you can see the effects this recording process has on the voice. It helps to remember that the recordings from this time would sound way different than their actual voices as demonstrated in the video.

[@royrice6060]

Look out reel to reel! You competition has arrived….140 years ago! 😬😬😬

[@CG19781]

Its still amazing after all those years!! :-)

[@tandy5811]

sounds like the pyro

[@joshallen128]

Looks like a tin can.. a tin can phone playback

[@tandy5811]

@@joshallen128 you idiot the recording sounds like pyro's muffled voice

[@freddy689]

Hallo, ich will so einen Phonographen nachbauen, was für eine Zinnfolie/ Alufolie/ Tinfoil kann man denn benutzen? Wie dick … und mit Klebe ? Grüße aus Berlin; sorry mein Englisch ist Not gut

[@CG19781]

freddie689, vielen Dank für Ihre Frage. Ich habe Google Translate verwendet, um Ihre Nachricht zu übersetzen und Ihnen auch zu antworten. Ich hoffe es ist richtig übersetzt!!! Mein Vater konnte Deutsch! :-) In Bezug auf die Folie - ich habe gerade eine namens "Heavy Aluminium Foil" verwendet, die im Laden gekauft wurde. Man bekommt keine Folie auch nur annähernd an die Originalfolie vom Typ 1870er/1880er Jahre! :-) Sie schneiden einen Streifen so breit wie den Dorn (Zylinder, um den Sie die Folie wickeln) und auch lang genug in der Länge, damit es in Ordnung ist, ihn um den Dorn zu wickeln. Dann glätten Sie es zum Beispiel auf einer sehr flachen, glatten Oberfläche mit Küchenpapier (als würden Sie es polieren!), bis es super glatt ist wie ein Glas / Spiegel und keine Falten usw. Sonst reißt die Folie leicht! Sie wickeln es um den Dorn und stellen wieder sicher, dass es fest und glatt ist. Sie befestigen es mit Klebeband oder ähnlichem am Dorn. Um die Glätte zu verbessern, geben Sie ein paar Tropfen Öl (wie im Baumarkt erhältlich) hinzu und streichen es mit dem Küchenpapier über die Folie, damit die Nadel bei der Aufnahme über die Folie gleitet. Stellen Sie die Aufnahmetiefenschraube so ein, dass sie eine leichte Spur macht, aber genau richtig, damit die Nadel beginnt, eine Rille zu schneiden, ohne die Folie zu zerreißen!! Es kann sehr leicht reißen! Es braucht viel Übung, um richtig aufzunehmen! Bezüglich Kleber - ich habe keinen verwendet, da die Folie leicht zu entfernen sein muss, wenn Sie ein neues Folienblatt für die nächste Aufnahme auflegen möchten! Sie befestigen die Folie einfach mit Klebeband. Für Interesse, hier ist ein Link zu meiner Powerpoint-Präsentation, die ich vor ein paar Jahren mit Bildern gemacht habe, als ich mein Modell gebaut habe. Es ist auf Englisch, aber vielleicht helfen die Bilder auch! :-) www.saarchivist.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Christopher-Grov%C3%A9-ONE-SMALL-STEP-FOR-TINFOIL.pdf Hoffe das hilft! :-)

[@briangode1381]

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[@lowlightpiano7110]

Repent and trust in Jesus. Hes the only way. We deserve Hell because weve sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him. John 3:16 Romans 3:23❤❤❤😊

[@ninjabluewings]

That is very well made and works well but i wish people would think of something original to shout into these things, I am sick of hearing the same nursery rhyme, if only Edison had shouted something more interesting back in 1877 we would not have EVERYONE SHOUTING THE SAME FUCKING THING ON ALL OF THESE VIDEOS!! 🙄🙄🙄

[@therestorationofdrwho1865]

I bloody wish I had one because then I actually would record other things 😂😂😂.

[@hdkdhdodhdnddjfkfjfofkfofo1453]

True.

[@Spacekriek]

Mary had a little cat, its fur was dark as night... :D Jokes aside, I think we should try something novel like heavy metal music. Edison would have had a cow !