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Listen to the Oldest Known Recording of a Human Voice

Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first person to record sound.

But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his phonautograph in 1857 – 20 years before Edison invented his phonograph.

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