A sound recording has been discovered that predates Thomas Edison's "Mary Had a Little Lamb" recording by 17 years. The clip is from 1860 and it is now the oldest known recorded human voice. It lasts 10 seconds and it is of a woman singing "Au Clair de la Lune."
Audo historian David Giovannoni found the clip and others in the patent office of France. It was made using a phonautograph created by inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville of Paris. "Using a needle that moved in resoponse to sound, the phonautograph etched sound waves into paper coated with soot from an oil lamp"
Giovannoni said of the findings, "It was magical, so ethereal. The fact is it's recorded in smoke. The voice is coming out from behind this screen of aural smoke."
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