The First Song Ever Recorded
The First: Stories of Inventions and their Consequences · Greg Young
May 5, 201710m 58s
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Show Notes
Imagine if we could hear the voices of Abraham Lincoln, Queen Victoria or Frederick Douglass? Believe it or not, somebody was making audio recordings as far back as the 1850s. This is the story of the first audio recordings ever made and the oldest song recording to ever be heard today, thanks to an intrepid group of tech-savvy historians.
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