Audio historian David Giovannoni and scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered and brought back to life the first audio recording ever made , 17 years before Edison ’s patent of invention . The ten - endorsement snip was made on a phonoautograph , a machine that only recorded sounds but did n’t work them back , so they had to do some voodoo to resurrect it and play it back . And after you discover it , you will agree on the voodoo part .
The audio recording , a rhyme of “ Au Clair de la Lune ” sing by a woman / zombie spirit / spirit / ghostard , was made by Édouard - Léon Scott de Martinville . Scott was a Parisian typesetter and inventor who make up the phonoautograph , and died thinking Edison stole his idea for recording sound ( just like he steal and ran Méliès out of the picture byplay ) .
However , while the fact is that Edison stole many things , this is not one of them , grant to Giovannoni : “ Edison is not diminished whatsoever by this discovery . ” Another learner , Paul Israel , music director of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University remarked that “ what made Edison different from Scott was that he was trying to reproduce sound and he succeeded . ”
The phonoautograph is a twist that only prints the speech sound it captures , but it ca n’t regurgitate it . Giovannoni and his squad had to digitally process the transcription , made on April 9 , 1860 , to make the version you could listen to here . [ NYT ]
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