The oldest in the world of sound recordings was made in 1860
Researchers from the group studying the history of recording First Sounds discovered and were able to play sound recordings of folk songs made by the French inventor in 1860, for 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, Reuters reports. Its is 10 seconds. To hear the recording supposedly female voice that sang "Au clair de la lune, Pierrot repondit.
It was April 9, 1860, the Paris-inventor Edward de Leon Scott Martinvilem with a device called "fonoavtograf." It protsarapyvalo tracks on a piece of paper, vychernennom smoke from the oil lamps.
One of the historians, David Giovannoni, said that to learn of the existence of record March 1, 2008. She kept in the archives of Paris. Experts from the First Sounds had already transferred it into a digital format.
Giovannoni said that this discovery is equivalent to finding the world's oldest photography, which would be made over 17 years until the invention of the camera. He, however, said that listing, originally, it was not designed for listening. The only intention of the inventor was muddy visually on paper sound vibrations.