History

On This Day In 1860, Human Voice Was Recorded For The First Time In Mankind's History

When French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville sang a nursery rhyme into his phonograph on April 9, 1860, he had no plans ever to play this recording back. A precursor to the wax cylinder, the phonautograph (a device for recording sounds visual without being able to play them back) took...