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Thu Apr 09 14:29:19 +0000 2020

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Ajit Pai @AjitPai

On this date in 1860, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville made the first sound recording in history. 20 years before Edison’s phonograph, his "phonautograph" recorded ambient sounds onto paper rotating on a cylinder. Incredibly, you can listen to it here: https://t.co/yxKoqs1cNc — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 9, 2020 Hibernated

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Great to join @salnuzzo and @loganlizpadgett! Thanks to them for having me on to talk about the @FCC’s work and to the @JmsMadisonInst for your advocacy. (And next time, I’m stealing Sal’s background!) — PolitiTweet.org

James Madison Inst. @JmsMadisonInst

Thank you to @AjitPaiFCC for joining us for the latest episode of Policy Gone VIral where he chats with @salnuzzo a… https://t.co/2dYIOoHs5r

Posted April 9, 2020 Hibernated

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Interestingly, he "conceived of a machine that would do for the ear what the camera did for the eye"—namely, put sounds on paper "to be studied visually." But "[n]either Scott de Martinville nor his contemporaries conceived of playing back his recordings." https://t.co/Y48BYJ01Ih — PolitiTweet.org

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