World's Oldest Recording
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World's Oldest Recording
On April 9,1860,17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph,Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville made a recording on a "phonautograph," which worked by tracing sound waves onto paper blackened by smoke. Unplayable for more than a century,the recording was recently brought to life by new audio technology. On the ...
Jul 21, 2012
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