The Earliest Recorded Sound

The earliest recorded sound in history was taped in 1860 by a Frenchman called Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

Probably the most interesting thing about his invention, the Phonautograph, is that it only recorded sounds. But não havia forma de os reproduzir!there was no way to play them!

17 years later, Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first machine that could record sound and also play it back.