Thomas Edison is often credited with recording the first human sound. In reality, that achievement belongs to a French ...
Mathew Brady, photograph of Thomas Edison with his second phonograph (1878) (Public Domain image) They sound like the warbles of a sad ghost — the wobbling, slightly musical murmurs that represent the ...
Music journalist Jonathan Scott explores the early history of recorded sound: from the first-known recordings in the 1800s to the most significant vinyl records of the 1940s. Here's a story that's ...