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First Recorded Sound- Circa 1860

submitted by iwastheturkey

1 decade 6 years 7 months 3 weeks ago

From Youtube:
Thomas Edison wasn't the first person to record sound. A Frenchman named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville actually did it earlier. He invented a device called the phonautograph, and, on April 9, 1860, recorded someone singing the words, "Au clair de la lune, Pierrot repondit."... A group of researchers found some of his old phonautograph papers and used a computer program to play the recording.

12 Comments

first!

I was pretty sure this was going to be a Rickroll.

Moving this video to iwastheturkey's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by schmawy.

"Thomas Edison wasn't the first person to record sound."

No, but he was apparently the first person to figure out how to record sound and play it back.

i wouldn't want to hear this coming from my loft in the dead of night

dystopianfuturetoday

Discovered this doing some research for a project. Fascinating. *quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by dystopianfuturetoday.

ForgedReality says...

>> ^iwastheturkey:

first!

No, sir. You weren't first, nor was Thomas Edison. *rolleyes*

CD's and MP3's just can't compare to the old stuff.

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