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:: Monday, March 31, 2008 ::

(New) World's Earliest Recording

"American researchers have pieced together a 10-second audio clip of a French folk song which they believe is the oldest recognisable recording of the human voice. The recording appears to be of a young woman singing a couple of phrases from the 18th century folk song Au Clair de la Lune. It was made in 1860 by Edouard Leon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian typesetter and librarian, on a Heath Robinson-style device he called a "phonautograph". But in successfully playing back the clip [134KB MP3], the team from the University of California's Berkeley Lab, may have robbed their compatriot Thomas Edison of the honour long accorded him as the first man to successfully record sound."

Edit: Story causes giggle attack on Radio 4 Today programme [600KB MP3]
[thanks James]

Labels: Audio, Radio4, Recording

:: Dan 31.3.08 [Arc] [1 comments] ::
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http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/today/today_20080328-0934.mp3

# posted by  Anonymous : 1/4/08 8:45 am

 

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