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a frozen moment that spins back to life when you set a needle on it.
means A record is information set down or captured so it can be kept and revisited — whether written, filmed, or pressed into a spinning disc of sound.
from From the Latin recordari, 'to remember, call to mind,' built from re- ('back, again') and cor, cordis ('heart') — the old idea being that to remember was to bring something back through the heart, which the ancients treated as the seat of memory. It reached English through Old French recorder, and only much later did it spin off the sense of a grooved audio disc.
- groove length
- one side unwound stretches roughly 500 meters
- vinyl revival
- records outsold CDs in 2022, first since 1987
- oldest sound
- a recorded voice predates Edison by 17 years
- speed matters
- 33, 45, and 78 RPM each fit different needs
- laser-readable
- some turntables now play vinyl with light, not contact
usain bolt's 100m sprint — 9.58 seconds set in 2009 berlin world championships, standing for 15 years
mount everest summit height — 29,032 feet, measured by nepal and china in 2020, highest point on earth