Best of Summer: The Loudest Sound
Endless Thread
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The Importance of Recording Sound
In 1883, the instruments that picked up this massive sound weren't designed to capture audible sounds. These first instruments instead captured longer, large-scale shifts in atmospheric pressure. The way that the sound travelled around the world at least four times and how it was recorded in places as far away as London has never been known before.
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