Sound Collection (page 3)

Sanveri Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes), ca. 1700-1710

The Cave of the Winds, 1872. Creator: Harry Fenn
The Cave of the Winds, 1872. Tourists at the base of Niagara Falls, USA:bridges have been built from rock to rock, under the very cataract itself

Listening for sounds from underground, Western Front, First World War, c1916, (c1920). Guarding against Underground Attack

Bell to warn of gas attack, Western Front, First World War, c1916, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Bell to warn of gas attack, Western Front, First World War, c1916, (c1920). [Be] Ware Gas! bell from a ruined church used by the French to warn their troops of the approach of a gas attack

Church bell and weather vane, Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
Church bell and weather vane, Kitzbuhel, Tyrol, Austria, c1935. From " Osterreich - Land Und Volk", (Austria, Land and People). [R. Lechner (Wilhelm Muller), Vienna, c1935]

The Carillon Tower, Salzburg, Austria, c1935. Creator: Unknown
The Carillon Tower, Salzburg, Austria, c1935. The Salzburg carillon (Salzburger Glockenspiel) contains 35 bells which play melodies including some by Mozart

The strokes of his hammer on the anvil kept time to his song, (1907). Creator: Unknown
The strokes of his hammer on the anvil kept time to his song, (1907). The German composer Handel is inspired by the sound of a hammer on an anvil: he was overtaken by a heavy shower of rain

In the Land of Harmony, 1911. Creator: John Frew
In the Land of Harmony, 1911. A naked child stands in front of the sunrise, waving a conductors baton at a choir of birds, with an inset portrait photograph of Claire Maynard

Anti-aircraft device, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). Creator: Unknown
Anti-aircraft device, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). The War against German Aircraft: a " Listening Post" in the French anti-aircraft Section

The Lark, early 20th century, (c1930). Creator: George Henry
The Lark, early 20th century, (c1930). Women listening to the song of a skylark. Painting in the Atkinson Art Gallery Collection, Southport, Merseyside

Filming City of Play, 1928, (1935). Creator: Unknown
Filming " City of Play", 1928, (1935). Actor and crew during shooting of a drama film at the Gainsborough film studios in London, notice the microphone above the actors head

A symbolic gesture, 1930. Creator: Unknown
A symbolic gesture, 1930. Un Geste Symbolique. Thanks to TSF (Telecoms without Borders), a military bugle blown in front of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris answers the greeting of another bugle across

The Kinuta, 1775, (1924). Creator: Kitao Shigemasa
The Kinuta, 1775, (1924). Women beating cloth, and listening to a cricket. The Japanese word kinuta refers to a fulling block, a wooden mallet for beating washing or to give a shine to cloth

Fog Signals, 1922. Creator: Unknown
Fog Signals, 1922. From The Romance of Modern Railways, by T. W. Corbin. [Seeley Service & Co. Limited, London, 1922]

Electricity Transforms the Printed World into Sound for the Blind, c1935. From Our Wonderful World, Volume III, edited by J.A. Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

The Shepherd hears the Guns at Dawn, c1910, (c1932). Artist: William Blamire Young
The Shepherd hears the Guns at Dawn, c1910, (c1932). From Modern Art by Charles Marriott & Tis & Tis. [Colour Ltd. London, 1909]

The Nightingale, 1897. Artist: W Heath Robinson
The Nightingale, 1913. The Nightingale is a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (1805?1875) about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real

Monk sounding the call to prayer on a gong, Greece, 1936. Artist: Nomias
Monk sounding the call to prayer on a gong, Greece, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Oh ah! let em ring again!, c1840s. Artist: George Cruikshank
Oh ah! let em ring again!, c1840s. Cartoon sketch of servants relaxing by the hearth while their masters ring for service

The Message of Love, 19th century, (1912). Artist: Eugene Delaplanche
The Message of Love, 19th century, (1912). A print from The Connoisseur, (London, 1912)

Douglas Shearer, Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and director, 1933. The brother of the Hollywood film star Norma Shearer

The nymph Echo changed into sound, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
The nymph Echo changed into sound, 1655. A plate from Michel de Marolless Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Missel Thrush, 19th century. Artist: Henrik Gronvold
Missel Thrush, 19th century

The Nymph Echo, Chang d into A Sound, 1774. Artist: W Walker
The Nymph Echo, Chang d into A Sound, 1774. A plate from The Copper-Plate Magazine or A Monthly Treasure, London, 1774

Orpheus, by his Voice and Lyre, attracts the attention of the Animals, Rocks and Trees, 1774. Artist: W Walker
Orpheus, by his Voice and Lyre, attracts the attention of the Animals, Rocks and Trees, 1774. A plate from The Copper-Plate Magazine or A Monthly Treasure, London, 1774

The Nymph Echo Changed into Sound, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
The Nymph Echo Changed into Sound, 1733. A plate from Le temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The Sense of Hearing, 1618. Artist: Jan Brueghel the Elder
The Sense of Hearing, 1618. From the collection of the Prado, Madrid, Spain

Thomas Alva Edisons first Phonograph, 1878 (1915). In this model the cylinder on which the sound was recorded had to be rotated by hand. The instrument is shown in recording mode

Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, German physicist, c1895. Chladni (1756-1827) was a pioneer of acoustics who developed the technique where sand vibrated on a metal plate forms regular symmetrical

Experiment to calculate the speed of sound in air, Paris, 1822, (c1880). Artist: Robert Brown
Experiment to calculate the speed of sound in air, Paris, 1822, (c1880). In 1822 the French appointed a commission to find the speed of sound in air

Various musical instruments and sounds, Wurtemberg, c1850. Key: 1) Condensed and rarified sound waves: 2) Echoes: 4) Megaphone: 5) Ear trumpet: 6) Speaking tube: 7) The Ear: 10-20) Musical instruments

Thomas Alva Edisons kinetographic theatre, c1892. This combined the recording of sound and vision. From a cigarette card published 1915

Thomas Alva Edisons first Phonograph, 1878. In this model the cylinder on which the sound was recorded had to be rotated by hand. Instrument in recording mode

Making recording on first model of Thomas Edisons Phonograph, c1878

Thomas Edisons Kinetographic Theatre, c1891. In this he combined the recording of sound and vision

Emile Berliners Gramophone, c1888. Top: Recording stylus and mouthpiece. Bottom: Playing a disc

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c1880. Vibrations produced in cone traced on lamp blacked cylinder

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c. 1906
Mid-19th century Phonautograph, c.1906. Plaster of Paris barrel with brass tube at a with hogs bristle attached to trace vibrations produced in AB on lampblacked cylinder C

Mid-19th century Phonautograph, 1872. Tuning fork vibrated by bow or iron rod, and vibration traced on cylinder coated with lampblack

Making a recording with, and listening to, first Edison Phonograph, 1878
First model of Edison Phonograph. Top: Making recording. Bottom: Listening to recording. Paris, April 1878

Sound Recording Disc Electricity Motor Battery Liquid, c1880

Communicating by speaking tube, 1882
Speaking tube, 1882. A cross-section of a ship, showing how communication between the bridge (top) and the rest of the vessel took place

Communication by speaking tube, c1850. A waiter serving clients in a restaurant, speaking to chefs at work in the kitchen on the floor below, using a speaking tube

Subjects hypnotised by the sound of a gong, 1891. An Irish physician using the pseudonym Dr Stanley gave a demonstration of hypnosis using the methods of French neurologist Jean Martin Charcot

Blowing up Flood Rock, 1885, (1886). Engraving made the year after the explosion. The rock was part of the Hell Gate Rocks complex which prevented large vessels reaching New York Harbour

The Five Senses: smell, hearing, sight, touch and taste, c1850. Illustration from a childrens book. (London, c1850)

Sketch of Alexander Graham Bells telephone of 1876. Artist: Alexander Graham Bell
Sketch of Alexander Graham Bells telephone of 1876. Scottish-born American inventor Bell (1847-1922) filed the patent for his telephone at the United States Patent Office at 3pm on 14 February 1876

Carbon microphone, invented in 1878 by David Edward Hughes, 1890. The apparatus was said to be so sensitive that a fly walking on the sounding-board could be heard by an observer on a telephone

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