Thursday, June 2, 2011

History Recorded and Available Online

Amazing what's preserved and easily available online.Youtube is of course an amazing resource for finding just about anything; how about the

oldest written music, only 1400BC




First Photograph 1826 Nicéphore Niépce; view from his upstairs window






Voice Recordings: Florence Nightingale 1890



Edison, Houdini, Yeats, Ernest Shackleton,Conan Doyle and others

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtU7SwMyUqM

Robert Browning, 1889, recites 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYot5-WuAjE&feature=related

Film: Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, 1896 and a number of other historic film clips at
http://www.politics.ie/history/159872-historic-film-clips.html

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