Audio historians have found a sound recording that predates Edison's phonograph by nearly 20 years. The "phonautograph" was patented in 1857 by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville; the device recorded ...

Phonautograph (c 1857) apparatus for studying sound vibrations graphically, invented by (Edouard) Leon Scott de Martinville. Vibrations produced in cone traced on lamp blacked cylinder. Engraving, ...

A sketch of an 1859 model of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's phonautograph. The oldest playable recording of an American voice will make its second public debut today (Oct. 26), when a newly ...

The voice of an unknown woman singing in a lamp-lit Paris laboratory nearly 150 years ago came to life Friday amid the crackles and buzz of a historic breakthrough recording made 17 years before ...

An "ethereal" 10 second clip of a woman singing a French folk song has been played for the first time in 150 years. The recording of "Au Clair de la Lune", recorded in 1860, is thought to be the ...

*Google Translator tackles a French website. France was the Japan-Galapagos-Islands of the 19th century. The first record of votes in the world in 1860 "The song "Au clair de la lune" was recorded in ...

The oldest playable recording of an American voice was to make its second public debut Friday when a newly digitized version is played at a theater in Schenectady, N.Y. The first playback took place ...

The oldest playable recording of an American voice will make its second public debut today (Oct. 26), when a newly digitized version is played at a theater in Schenectady, N.Y. The first playback took ...