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The Phonoautograph

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

An 1859 model of Scott’s phonautograph (courtesy First Sounds)
Until recently, the earliest existing sound recording was thought to be a Handel oratorio recorded at the Crystal Palace in 1888. But a group of dedicated researchers at First Sounds have managed to prove that idea wrong. They decoded ten seconds of the song "Au [...]