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Re: [ARSCLIST] (Fwd) Re: [ARSCLIST] Paris Opera Unearths 100-Year-Old Recordi



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Friedman" <hsf318@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> George,
>
> If I missed the word "airborne," mea culpa!  OTOH, any squiggles recorded by
both Young and Scott were transmitted to the coated paper wrapped around a
rotating drum through some sort of a stylus arrangement in  both instances.  The
"point" I was trying to make is that Léon Scott de Martinville was superseded by
Thomas Young by almost half a century, and that he should certainly receive some
share of the recognition of that fact, particularly since Young used wax-coated
paper, while Scott's was coated with lamp black.  Moreover, there are quite a
few references on the Internet, if one googles Thomas Young.
>
However, there are probably about 2,134,322 people named "Thomas Young"
that get Internet references of one sort or another...?!

Steven C. Barr


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