French typesetter Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville sings…

April 1860 CE

French typesetter Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville sings the French folk song Au clair de la lune to his phonautograph on April 9 , 1860, producing the world's earliest known sound recording (however, it will not be rediscovered until 2008).

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