World’s Oldest Recording

Filed under: Technology — Scott King at 6:02 am on Friday, March 28, 2008


Click here to listen to the world’s oldest known recording. This was apparently recorded in 1860 and is a woman singing “Au Claire de la Lune” into a barrel-shaped horn , etching the sound waves into a soot-covered piece of paper. This type of recording is called a XXXX and you can read more about it here.

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