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A Voice from 1860

Most people think of Thomas Edison's phonograph of 1877 as the first machine to capture sound. In fact, a French printer named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville had built a device seventeen years earlier that traced sound waves as wavy lines on paper blackened by smoke. He called it a phonautograph and meant it for study, not for listening; no one expected that the lines could ever be turned back into sound.

For nearly a century and a half, the paper recordings lay in archives as curiosities. In 2008, researchers scanned a tracing made in 1860 and used a computer to convert the lines into sound. The result was a faint voice singing a few seconds of a French folk song, now the oldest known recording of a human voice.

The discovery shows how a technology can be ahead of its purpose. Scott recorded sound but had no way to play it, while Edison built a machine whose first purpose was to replay what it recorded. Which of them should be called the inventor of sound recording depends on whether one values the capture or the playback.

According to paragraph 1, Scott de Martinville intended his phonautograph to be used for...

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