Oldest Edison TinFoil Recording.
Some things never change. Give a family a brand new sound recording device, and they record their kid practicing the cornet, and dad laughing, and somebody mangling the reading of Mary Had A Little Lamb. This 1878 recording is the oldest recording of the human voice and sound available. It has been saved to digital format by scientists from the Berkeley National Laboratory and the Library of Congress. The TinFoil was wrapped around the cylinder of the Edison Phonograph when recorded. It is amazing that it has survived. I wonder if the videotapes I made of the kids' recitals will be national news in a hundred years?
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October 26, 2012
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