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Photographophone

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The Photographophone" (1901)[1]

A photographophone is a device, first developed by Ernst Ruhmer of Berlin, Germany in 1900, used to produce and play back audio recordings.[2][3][4]

Photographophone recording uses celluloid film. The process is started by speaking into a microphone, connected to a battery pack, whose modulated electrical output produces corresponding variations in the light of an arc (later an incandescent lamp) that passes through a cylindrical lens slot, which creates lines on the moving sensitive film. This film, after being taken out of the box and developed, shows a series of perpendicular striations parallel to one another, which are a photographic record of the sound waves created by the telephone transmitter output.[5]

To reproduce the recorded sound, a projector directs light through the film, which travels at an equal velocity to that with which the record is made. Behind the film, a sensitive selenium cell is mounted, receiving the variations in light, which produces a variation in its resistance, and corresponding audio in a connected telephone receiver.[5]

Ruhmer was quoted as saying: "It is truly a wonderful process: sound becomes electricity, becomes light, causes chemical action, becomes light and electricity again, and finally sound." In addition, it was described as "The reproduction of speech by this photographic phonograph is astonishingly clear, and in strength resembles the ennunciation of a good telephone when in ordinary use... It has the advantage of the ordinary wax-cylindered phonographs in that the reproduction is purer and is free from the unpleasant noises caused by imperfections in the mechanism."[5]

References

  1. ^ "The 'Photographophone'" by Ernst Ruhmer, Scientific American , July 20, 1901, page 36.
  2. ^ "To Photograph Your Talk". The Coburg Leader. Vol. XXII, no. 37. Victoria, Australia. 19 September 1903. p. 3. Retrieved 30 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia. , ...A small electric-motor moves the rolls at the rate of 12ft [3.7 m] per second...
  3. ^ "The Photographophone". The Australasian. Vol. LXX, no. 1838. Victoria, Australia. 22 June 1901. p. 51. Retrieved 30 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "Talking Through a Ray of Light". The Border Morning Mail and Riverina Times. Vol. IV, no. 1081. New South Wales, Australia. 4 May 1907. p. 6. Retrieved 30 October 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ a b c "Chapter IV: The Photographophone", Wireless Telephony In Theory and Practice by Ernst Ruhmer (translated from the German by James Erskine-Murray), 1908, Pages 36-40.
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