R&S award for optical sound restoration system</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="R&S award for optical sound restoration system"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="R,S,award,for,optical,sound,restoration,system"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">08-07-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>R&S award for optical sound restoration system</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">California, USA (Ascribe): Recordings on diverse media like foil and wax cylinders, shellac and vinyl discs, acetate sheets, and plastic dictation belts have captured an incredible range of material. But many of these can no longer be played and are too delicate for traditional restoration. <br>By adapting methods for measuring particle tracks in high-energy physics experiments, Carl Haber and Victor Fadeyev have created a noncontact method for restoring damaged and fragile mechanical recordings. <br>Archivists estimate that 40 percent of the millions of recordings in the world's major sound archives could benefit from restoration with the Berkeley Lab technology. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20050707.135603&time=14%2021%20PDT&year=2005&public=0 " target="blank">newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20050707.135603&time=14%2021%20PDT&year=2005&public=0 </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show