Friday, March 28, 2008

World's earliest recorded human sound..

Check this out..
www.firstsounds.org/sounds/index.php

It is the oldest record of the human voice. It was done on April 9 1860 during the time of Emperor Napoleon III, the last monarch of France. The inventor, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, had this gadget called the 'phonautograph', a device that scratched sound waves onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke from an oil lamp. Sound digital experts have just recently manage to get the sound out.

Sounds to me like a warbling...

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