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The complete Experimental Talking Clock recording. Francois Lambert (13 June 1851 – 1937) was a French American inventor. Lambert is perhaps best known today for making the oldest sound recording reproducible on its own device (1878) on his own version of the phonograph.
Audichron Company was a company founded in the 1930s by John Franklin in Doraville, Georgia, [1] to produce the Audichron, a talking clock. [2] By the 1970s, there were thousands of Audichron time-of-day announcers in use all over the world. Audichron had also developed a machine to announce the temperature. During the 1970s and 1980s ...
A talking clock (also called a speaking clock and an auditory clock) is a timekeeping device that presents the time as sounds. It may present the time solely as sounds, such as a phone-based time service (see " Speaking clock ") or a clock for the visually impaired, or may have a sound feature in addition to an analog or digital face.
Audichron was a talking clock, or a time announcer which was developed and produced by the Audichron Company, starting in the 1930s.There were several types of Audichron machines including the stand time piece (STM), M12, temperature machine (TEMP) and the Comparator.
In Australia, the number 1194 was the speaking clock in all areas. The service started in 1953 by the Post Master General's Department, originally to access the talking clock on a rotary dial phone, callers would dial "B074", during the transition from a rotary dial to a DTMF based phone system, the talking clock number changed from "B074" to 1194.
The "Experimental Talking Clock" was recorded c. 1878 by inventor Frank Lambert.It was long thought to be the world's oldest playable sound recording and is listed in both the Guinness Book of World Records and The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound as such; however, an older phonautogram recording of "Au clair de la lune" from 1860 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was reproduced for the ...
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The face of the hypothetical clock would be parallel to the equator, and would be arranged so the hour hand points to the meridian where noon is occurring. He proposed the hours of the day, and the meridians, be designated with 24 letters of the alphabet, with G being assigned to Greenwich.