UNLOCKED: The Great Archaeological Discoveries, pt. 6 -- Early Audio Recordings
Unlocked after 1 year for patrons only: In the second half of the nineteenth century, many of the most brilliant and ambitious minds in both Europe and America were bent upon solving the problem of capturing sound waves from the air and playing them back. Most of their efforts, including the earliest "phonautograms"…
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