American scientists have discovered an audio recording dating since 1860, 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, France Presse informs. French Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville recorded the "Au Clair de la Lune" song in 1860, using a "phonoautographer", an invention able to transform sound waves in engravings on a paper surface, but without the possibility to ever again listen it.
Using modern technology to create a virtual device for reading the paper recording, the scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California managed to restore the French song, sung by a woman, thus making Scott the first to ever record sounds.
American scientists have discovered an audio recording dating since 1860, 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, France Presse informs. French Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville recorded the "Au Clair de la Lune" song in 1860, using a "phonoautographer", an invention able to transform sound waves in engravings on a paper surface, but without the possibility to ever again listen it.
Using modern technology to create a virtual device for reading the paper recording, the scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California managed to restore the French song, sung by a woman, thus making Scott the first to ever record sounds.
