The history of recording: The earliest recorded sounds | The Economist
IT MUST have been excruciating for the National Museum of American
History's archivists to have the earliest known recordings of the human
voice but not to be able to listen to them. The records, made in the Volta
Lab of Alexander Graham Bell in the early 1880s, were too fragile to play.
But the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory figured out how to scan them
optically and retrieve the sound,
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