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=== Temporal limit of digital sound-alikes === [[File:Edison_and_phonograph_edit1.jpg|thumb|left|210px|[[w:Thomas Edison]] and his early [[w:phonograph]]. Cropped from [[w:Library of Congress]] copy, ca. 1877, (probably 18 April 1878)]] The temporal limit of whom, dead or living, the digital sound-alikes can attack is defined by the '''[[w:history of sound recording]]'''. The article starts by mentioning that the invention of the [[w:phonograph]] by [[w:Thomas Edison]] in '''1877''' is considered the start of sound recording. The '''phonautograph''' is the earliest known device for recording [[w:sound]]. Previously, tracings had been obtained of the sound-producing vibratory motions of [[w:tuning forks]] and other objects by physical contact with them, but not of actual sound waves as they propagated through air or other media. Invented by Frenchman [[W:Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]], it was patented on March 25, '''1857'''.<ref name="NPR-Phonautograph"> {{Cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89380697 |title=1860 'Phonautograph' Is Earliest Known Recording |last=Flatow |first=Ira|date=April 4, 2008|work=NPR |access-date=2012-12-09 |language=en}} </ref> Apparently, it did not occur to anyone before the 1870s that the recordings, called '''phonautograms''', contained enough information about the sound that they could, in theory, be '''used to recreate it'''. Because the phonautogram tracing was an insubstantial two-dimensional line, direct physical playback was impossible in any case. Several phonautograms recorded '''before 1861''' were successfully played as sound in '''2008''' by optically scanning them and using a computer to process the scans into digital audio files. ([[w:Phonautograph|Wikipedia]]) [[File:Spectrogram-19thC.png|thumb|right|640px|A [[w:spectrogram]] of a male voice saying 'nineteenth century']]
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