( March 27, 2008 )

Earliest audio-recording re-surfaces

It was never designed for playback — it’s a phonautogram, and it predates Edison’s “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by 20 years.

Which is a misleading statistic, because the big deal about MHLL was the playback. It’s like having videotape before the television….

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