Although for long, many thought that Thomas Edison was the father of recorded sound, in 2008 it was discovered that somebody else had already succeeded in doing that almost 20 years early, on April 9, 1860.
Moron question of the day!
Is it Jesus rapping ?
No. Jesus was not a rapper, he was more into dubstep. It is a 10 second recording of a woman singing “Au Clair de la Lune” a french folksong from the 18th Century. It was discovered in an archive in Paris in 2008 by a group of American audio historians. Made on a phonautograph, which was invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville it ironically recorded sounds visually but did not play them back. So, the inventor of sound recording sadly never heard his own work…
Luckily clever scientists nowadays have been smart enough to deploy modern technology for unveiling a sound that had been in capture for almost 150 years! Enjoy!
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