1860: The First Sound Ever Recorded

(video by nomaduzzu)

Says nomaduzzu, this is the first sound ever recorded, by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, in 1860, before Edison's wax cylinder experiments; ironically, the phonautograph was designed only to record sounds, not to play them back; the 10 seconds ghostly voice is a woman singing Au Clair de la Lune.


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