In 1860, a man recorded his own voice — and died without ever hearing it.
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In 1860, a man recorded his own voice — and died without ever hearing it. He built a strange machine called the phonautograph.
It captured sound by scratching the vibrations onto paper coated in black smoke — a photograph of a voice.
What he recorded was a folk song, "Au Clair de la Lune" — the oldest known recording of a human voice.
But the machine had one flaw: it could draw sound. It could never play it back.
This was seventeen years before Edison — the man history still calls the…
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