Recording sound and word has historically been to the acoustical delight or civic vexation of the listener. It may come as a surprise to some that Thomas Edison was not the originator of sound devices but, in fact, it was Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented the phonautograph in 1857.
Instead of playing back soundwaves the device traces them visually onto soot-covered paper. It wouldn’t be until 2008 when the phonautograms were played back using digital imaging. Thomas Edison’s sketches in 1877 were the foundation of John Kruesi’s, an Edison-employed machinist, phonograph built of tinfoil. Reportedly, the first sound impulses to be successfully recorded and played back on the machine were from a verse of “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Acoustical recording, simply described, is where the performed sound vibrated a diaphragm connected to a stylus that cut grooves into a rotating medium beneath it, like a record. T
hanks to many technological advances sound recording moved beyond nursery rhymes and the standard of 250 Hz to 2,500 Hz. The 1930s brought magnetic recording in wire and tape forms to the forefront by which the concept was realized earlier in 1898, Germany by Valdemar Poulsen. Mechanically generalized, it works on fields of polarity that create electrical audio signals.
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This particular reel-to-reel tape player/recorder from our collection is a Minerva Three Speaker High Fidelity made in Chicago, USA. It was bought by Fred Buskas in the 1950s where it was used by the Clover Lawn Orchestra who played for local weddings and church groups.
Originally published in the Wetaskiwin Times, February 3, 2021.
