MUCH earlier sound recording

[Derek Jackson]

I saw an episode of CSI which suggested that sound might be recorded by accident on a potter's wheel.

WI some such thing happened and was noticed somewhere between 500 and 5000 years ago.

 

[arctic warrior]

The idea was put forward more than 30 years ago, that you should be able to pick-up noises from a potters wheel or objects made thereupon. The method to pick-up or the medium to do so wasn't described however. So it would take someone to develop the idea and make a pick-up tool to unveil the sound and some device to store the sounds. Something like the phonograph or like.

 

[david3565]

It isn't so much a matter of the recording medium as it is the means of capture. You need something sensitive enough to pick up and transmit sound waves with limited amounts of distortion. I think the Chinese are the best candidates for an early development of sound recording. They have a history of sophisticated devices that utilized accoustics in one fashion or another.