Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Oldest Recording

Historians have recently revealed what is believed to be the earliest recordings of human speech, dating back to 1857 (20 years before Edison invented the phonograph).

What historians found was a phonautograph, invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, which contained a series of wavy lines on paper.

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