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Two decades before Thomas Edison recorded sound on tinfoil...

Friday, 28 March 2008 01:00 Gene Gaudette

... Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville was making recordings with the phonautograph. A century and a half later, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory devised a way to play them back. Read the article here.

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