tweetsauce LINKS: Destin and "Smarter Every Day": http://www.youtube.com/destinws2 Good site for info on the oldest sound recordings: http://www.phonozoic.net/ First recording:...
========== Hey, Vsauce.
Michael here. And I'm with Destin in Alabama.
What he's about to do is capture on a Phantom camera at a 1080 frames a second a hawk - that
one - catching a target. But today we're going to talk about sound.
First things first. The Raptor Center takes care of raptors that
have been injured, or would otherwise not be able to survive in the wild on their own.
For instance, this bald eagle named Spirit, who was hit by a car that damaged his beak. Okay, so that is the bald eagle. Very interesting sound that it makes.
But what I'm interested in today is the recording of sound.
It hasn't really been that long in human's history that we've able to record sounds.
In fact, it wasn't until 1859 with the invention of the phonautograph i...