Hear the First Recording of the Human Voice (1860)
When inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville sang a nursery rhyme into his phonoautogram in 1860, he had no plans to ever play again this documenting. A precursor to the wax cylinder, the phonoautogram took inputs for the research of sound waves, however couldn’t be changed into an output gadget. How amazing then, that 150 or…

