First sound ever recorded (1860)

This is the first sound ever recorded, by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, in 1860, before Edison's wax cylinder experiments. Ironically, the "phonautograph" was designed only to record sounds, not to play them back.

The 10 seconds ghostly voice is a woman singing "Au Clair de la Lune".


via NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html?_r=1&ex=1364356800&...

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[Specialonea]

better than justin bieber ;)

[LovelyRtard]

Amazing we are able to hear a voice recorded 152 years ago. There are no words to describe how surreal this is.

[love19025]

i got a little scared

[docmartenialation]

that woman is dead now, just sayin'

[CardShark989]

its a girl singing a french song

[loweida98]

.......excuse me....

[superuglyman888]

reminds me of people online who talk with the microphone in their mouth

[roland19hun]

Cat

[zorro4546]

in 2008 10-second record on which the inventor sings a fragment from a national French song «Au Clair de la Lune» has been reproduced found in the Parisian archive made on the phonoautograph on April,9th,1860t is interesting that at the first воспроизведениях researchers have attributed execution to the unknown singer or the teenager, but the further researches of 2009 have allowed to establish that speed of reproduction has been overestimated,and it actually the Scott singing very slowly voice.

[gaioa]

justin bieber called. he want his voice back

[miffachan123]

Creepy

[TheAssassino4]

This sounds different on Wikipedia it's more like a female voice here but there it's a male!