U.S. experts find oldest voice recording, from 1860


	U.S. experts find oldest voice recording, from 1860

mariana3

3-28-2008 6:06 AM

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3-28-2008 11:11 AM

JohnWaterman

You can check out the audio at the BBC, and one newsreader's reaction. I've got them both here

3-28-2008 11:14 AM

JohnWaterman

Sorry. That clip of mine didn't work. Try here

3-28-2008 12:21 PM

CarnivalBorn

That's cool!

3-28-2008 5:49 PM

mariana3

Thanks for adding the link, JohnWaterman!

3-28-2008 7:11 PM

skwirlinator

I guess this rewrites history

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U.S. audio historians have
discovered and played back a French inventor's historic 1860
recording of a folk song -- the oldest-known audio recording --
made 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.                        
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"Au clair de la lune, Pierrot repondit" ("By the light of the
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Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville on a device called the
phonautograph that scratched sound waves onto a sheet of paper
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