The 1800s aren’t usually remembered through sound. While Photographs allow us to see this century more vividly than any before it, the stern-faced Victorians stare back at us in silence from their portraits. It was only in the 20th century that the phenomenon of playing back voices became so common that we take it for granted. But the technology to do so existed far earlier, allowing us to listen to the distant echoes of people who lived centuries ago. This video is dedicated to the oldest voices that can still be heard.
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The Nutcracker Suite – Act I, No.5. Arabian Dance – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
By “European Archive” (http://musopen.org/)
Holberg Suite, Op.40 – 4. Air – Edvard Grieg
By “Papalin” (http://musopen.org/)
Lyric Pieces, Op. 62 – V. Drommesyn – Edvard Grieg
By “Edward Rosser” (http://musopen.org/)
Pieces in G – no. 2 – César Franck
By “Erik Jan Eradus” (http://musopen.org/)
Lyric Pieces, Op. 38 – VIII. Canon – Edvard Grieg
By “Papalin” (http://musopen.org/)
Peer Gynt Suite no. 1, Op. 46 – II. Aase’s Death – Edvard Grieg
By “Musopen Symphony” (http://musopen.org/)
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You mean barely hear.
8:20 no offense but sounds like bonzibuddy 💀
When the recordings were played back at the time, were they clear or fuzzy? Or is the fuzziness due to the degrading of the recording material over time?
Why are people creeped out by this? Musicians pass away constantly and we still listen to their songs
8:50 This is proof they had autotune even in oldest histories 😂
This is so well researched by you – Totally enthralled . . .
Helmuth von Moltke stating that a dead mans voice can be heard long after the mans death with this invention in a voice recording from over 100 years ago is… well it’s quite something isn’t it?
caretaker fans sampling galore
Incredibly well done – Thank you . . .
Despite being such early designs of voice recording, some of these are very clear recordings. The same with photography. Although very unclear at first, it quickly evolved into clearer and clearer images and eventually films. Although wartime photographs and films are depicted as blurry on TV, which is partially true for films, the photographs and films were very clear (and still are actually) for the time. Just look at photographs or films that survived WW1. You can clearly identify soldiers and their equipment until a certain range (I think 10-15ish meters?).
Technology keeps amazing me, as to how it suddenly surged with the invention of proper firearms (as in evolved from the basic flintlocks of the medieval times and English Civil War). We suddenly went from long distance carriage convoys to steam locomotives, from basic tubes with a pot at the top, blasting balls towards the enemy when lit (or blowing up in your face) to the first flintlock weapons, to muskets and rifles, paintings to photography, voice recording being invented in a very crude, but genius way, recording the streets of the late 1800's in 1888 with the earliest surviving film originating in England.. which even had sound at incredibly good quality!
Then suddenly our dreams of flying came true in the 1900's, we even had a first Pulse Jet Engine (famously used on the V1's of Nazi Germany.. aka the flying bombs) powered by steam in 1867, with a Russian inventor actually making it work in 1906 and patented in 1907, evolving a very small bit further when a French inventor making the first valveless pulse jet a year later. 1913 and a Spanish inventor made a pulse jet and patented it in 1917 (A photograph exists of this invention!). In 1931 the concept of the Pulse Jet was finally tested on a bicycle with success. We stuck with propellors for a long time from 1903, till basically the late 1950's.. but still managed to make our first flying Jet aircraft in the late 30's, and the first operational jet fighter in 1944. We invented radar as a means of detecting aircraft, the world's first guided munition: a rocket that was guided by a radio signal to adjust it's course called the Fritz X. An actual first iteration of the Surface-To-Air Missile made by Germany during the war. Then we made rockets that could track a target on their own by seeking the heat of the target, calculate it's impact point on it's own. Then as radar evolved, radar guided missiles came out.. revolutionizing air warfare on a scale never seen before.
Just think about it.. we first took flight in 1903, and in the mid 1950's BANG we have the afterburner for jet engines.. providing more thrust than a conventional turbojet of the time and it suddenly being put on every aircraft of every nation… just think about that..
Just a heart piercing turn to find that von Molkte's remains were plundered during the second great war. Even if he was buried with priceless treasures, that people disturbed the body itself is a heavy weight upon the collective human soul.
I cannot name all the fascinating things that happened in history that are closer from Moltke’s birth date than between Moltke’s birth date and today.
I love how your videos are so precise. Despite you covering quite a long period of fashion history, seeing how accurately you depict each single style for the specific year is definitely astounding. I hadn’t known I needed to see these videos until I saw the first one. Thank you for the content you’re making 🖤
When listening to the early recordings, a person would need to smoke a lot of dope and use some imagination to decypher anything intelligable.
I usually watch your videos while trying to fall asleep (no offense! your voice is very calming; I usually finish what I've missed in the morning), but being interrupted by these is downright unsettling 😬
I am german from formerly Prussia and the fact that I could understand every word the General said without looking at the subtitles is wild, such good sound, he sounded just like any old men today. I thought about why he said almost the exact same sentence twice…the second time he twisted a few words so that it sounds a tiny bit more correct, elegant and sophisticated, like a written text. There was probably a lot of thought about what to say behind it and no chance to delete the first imperfect try.
This is a such well made video!
150 years later and some people still have worse sounding mics.
This sounds like Lemmino
So this is what my ranked teammates use as mics
Okay, the man long in his grave raising his voice to greet the present got to me. I'm not crying, you're crying.
bro's mic
They wouldve never comprehended the internet.
I'm surprised they haven't restored these recordings using AI…