1860 voice recording discovered

posted by Steve on 29th, 2008

Great article in Tech Gadget Update about the recent discovery (and playback) of the first sound ever recorded, circia 1860. It was made in France by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville on his invention, “the phonautograph.” While it recorded properly, says the article, M. de Martinville didn’t have the playback quite figured out…and thus it languished for lo these 147 years until a group of audio historians learned about its existence earlier this month, nabbed it, and managed to capture and reproduce the audio -a 10 second clip of someone singing a French folk song. Quite cool. Here’s the audio…