Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that the first known recording of a human voice was made in 1860 by ...

TIL that the first known recording of a human voice was made in 1860 by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, but his machine could only draw sound waves on paper, not play them back. Researchers didn't hear the recording until they digitally reconstructed it in 2008.

https://home.nps.gov/edis/learn/historyculture/origins-of-sound-recording-the-inventors.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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