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Re: [ARSCLIST] NY Times: Researchers Play Tune Recorded before Edison
From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad
Hello,
the initiative described in the NYT really merits the highest praise!
If anybody wants to read what Edouard-Léon Scott actually wrote in his
handwritten French patents in 1857 and 1859, I published the first
translation ever into English in May 2007, in the Audio Engineering Society
Conference Preprint 7007. There you will also find reference to his sealed
letter at the French Academy of Sciences.
The translation alone may be read for free at Patrick Feaster's Phonozoic
website:
http://www.phonozoic.net/Scott-patents-translation+notes.pdf
Kind regards,
George
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Clark Johnsen wrote:
> Yes. I've been telling people for decades that while Edison invented the
> phonograph, he did not invent the record. It's always been news to them,
> but
> now that AP has it on the wire, guess I can hang up my hat.
>
> Worth mentioning too, another Frenchie -- Charles Cros -- almost copped
> the
> phonograph; unfortunately for him, he never made it work and along came
> Edison just a few months later. Alas the NY Times report omitted
> that intriguing piece of news.
>
> clark
>
>
> 2008/3/27 Stephen C Leggett <sleg@xxxxxxx>:
>
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?hp
> >