The Pattern of sound waves, photographed by scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The Pattern of sound waves, photographed by scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Pattern of sound waves, photographed by scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories
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A 1950 press photograph from Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York, issued with its own caption as release number 182929, makes sound visible as a pattern on a page. Bell's researchers, working for the company that ran much of the nation's telephone system, spent years studying speech and hearing, and recording waveforms photographically was a standard way to turn a fleeting vibration into something that could be measured and explained. Pictures like this one helped translate that laboratory work for newspaper readers who rarely saw what a voice looked like.
| Created / published | 1950 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1950. |
| Notes | Press release photo and caption from Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York. No. 182929. |
| Subjects | Sound waves--1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,286 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-178915 |
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