Feb
6
This is an 1860 recording of Au Clair de la Lune by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. It’s on a phonautograph, which recorded sound waves in creosote (more or less) and couldn’t actually be played back…until recently, when a US team found the original and digitized it, and then cleaned it up.
It’s currently the earliest playable recording of a human voice.
