The Voice in the Soot: Humanity’s Earliest Known Recording

Image extracted from the video Let There Be Sound, Part 4 by First Sounds / CC BY.

This is the first known dated recording of the human voice, recorded in 1860 but only played back for the first time in 2008:

Au Clair de la Lune, March 2008 release by First Sounds / CC BY.

Creepy, isn’t it? It reminds … Read the rest