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Thomas Edison gets all the credit for the first sound recording. But Parisian inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville beat him to the punch by 17 years.
Thing is, Scott (as he’s commonly called, if called anything at all) didn’t play his back. He created visual recordings of sound waves that he enjoyed looking at.
But some clever scientists have figured out how to play the recordings back. Check it out here, a scratchy rendition of the French folksong “Au Clair de la Lune” recorded on April 9, 1860 on a phonautogram and perhaps sung by his daughter.
NPR has a nice story about it.
March 30th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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Who’s got who’s back, and for whom?