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As strange as it seems, all the French inventor cared about was seeing what sound looked like. >Just another example of how being first or early, even in groun
by accountyaccount 9y ago
As strange as it seems, all the French inventor cared about was seeing what sound looked like.
>Just another example of how being first or early, even in groundbreaking things, means you will probably not find success.
Well no, in this case the inventor of sound recording just had an entirely different goal.
- sixothree 9y agoAnd neither he nor anyone exposed to this idea were able to make the connection to playback ability. I do find that a bit surprising.
- subroutine 9y agoApparently Scott first had to convince people that sound came from vibrations. > Scott proved that vibrations are truly how sounds came to our ears. But Thompson says the scientific community had trouble accepting his breakthrough. So maybe it's not too surprising.
- WalterBright 9y agoAny violin/piano player already knew that.
- wutbrodo 9y agoI'm skeptical that they knew that vibrating air was what our ears perceived as sound. If you know a little about the history of science, there are tons of theories that held up for some time that are no less "ridiculous" to our eyes than some special medium moving through air that our ears process as sound. The fact that the _source_ of sound was known to vibrate doesn't exclude this possibility, and _that's_ what violin/piano players knew about (Sources of visible light often give off heat, but saying that light and heat are the same thing is not implied by that).
- WalterBright 9y agoSee my other reply to this topic, which is directly to your point.