Earliest Audio Recording Resurrected; Beat Out Edison By Nearly 20 Years
A new audio recording believed to be the earliest ever made has surfaced recently.For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording of the human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman, that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades.“This is a historic find, the earliest known recording of sound,” said Samuel Brylawski, the former head of the recorded-sound division of the Library of Congress, who is not affiliated with the research group but who was familiar with its findings. 
??As you can see here, the first IPOD was a little cumbersome??The 10-second recording of a singer crooning the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” was discovered earlier this month in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable — converted from squiggles on paper to sound — by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif."CLICK HERE":CH TO CHECK OUT THE RECORDING![CH]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?_r=3&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1206633768-RM5kLBQ3hdeFN/MP+rWNGw&oref=slogin
??As you can see here, the first IPOD was a little cumbersome??The 10-second recording of a singer crooning the folk song “Au Clair de la Lune” was discovered earlier this month in an archive in Paris by a group of American audio historians. It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable — converted from squiggles on paper to sound — by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif."CLICK HERE":CH TO CHECK OUT THE RECORDING![CH]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?_r=3&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1206633768-RM5kLBQ3hdeFN/MP+rWNGw&oref=slogin
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