COMM 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Satellite Television, Federal Radio Commission, Columbia Records
31 Mar 2016
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February 28, 2014: how did we come to record sound, begins with electricity, french guy invented making sound with hog"s hair, funnel, scratched grooves into lamp black and used it to record sound. Demartinville: this is taken as a prototype, in 1877, thomas edison had some success playing sound back. It was tin foil wrapped around a metal cylinder. The idea that all of these inventions are related to the idea of writing. He is the most famous name in this whole textbook, is revered as a legend and an inventor. He was a shitty person and would scoop up as many talented scientists at his lab at a relatively low fee (barely living wage) to do work on perfecting things, and then patented them. He used political pressure on rivals to drive them experiments and under his own name. out of business. Cassettes eventually replace records: improvements on the recording on magnetic tape.
