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Month: January 2017

Hearing Voices from a Broken Disc

Posted on January 9, 2017 (March 20, 2017) by Janet Gertz

Hearing the voices of people who lived in another century brings them close to us, but early recording technology makes hearing them a challenge. In the first half of the 20th century a common recording method was to use discs with a lacquer surface. Sound waves caused a stylus to vibrate and cut grooves into […]

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