What is the first sound that was ever recorded?

Question

This morning I saw on GMA something about "the first sound ever recorded". Unfortunatly, I had to go to school and missed the report.

Does anyone have any information about this?

Answer 1

the article said that 13 yrs before edison there was recording made in europe. google it.

Answer 2

The earliest recording was made in about 1860, approximately 17 years before Edison recorded "Mary had a Little Lamb".  The recording was done in France and was a French singer singing a traditional song.  The recording was just recently discovered by a music historian who was researching patents.  The recording was made by Edouard-Leon Scott, a French inventor who was trying to demonstrate that he was the first to come up with the idea for recording sound by capturing the vibrations of the sound waves.

The original "recordings" were drawings of the sound waves made using an instrument known as a phonautograph.  The drawings have recently been replayed by scientists at Berkley in California, and are considered to be the earliest sounds ever purposely recorded and replayed.

Answer 3

I just checked out this website seconds ago..

hope it helps...

Answer 4

Thomas Edison recorded Mary had a little lamb.

Answer 5

Thomas Edison did record the first sound, and though he did record "Mary Had A Little Lamb", he recorded himself shouting "Hello" first.

From Microsoft Encarta Encyclopeida:

The Phonograph

While working on the telephone, Edison also worked on perhaps his most original invention. He had noticed how the phone’s diaphragm, a thin membrane in the mouthpiece, vibrated in tune with the voice. He thought that if these vibrations could somehow be recorded, so that the diaphragm could be made to vibrate in exactly the same manner at any future time, then speech, music, and other sounds could be preserved and reproduced. Edison tested the strength of the diaphragm vibrations by holding a needle against the diaphragm with his finger, so that the needle pricked his finger with a force that varied with the loudness of the sounds.

In a later experiment, he applied one end of the needle to the diaphragm and the other end to a strip of waxed paper. He then pulled the paper along underneath the needle while repeatedly shouting, "Hello!" The needle, activated by the vibrations of the diaphragm, created grooves in the paper. When the paper was again pulled along underneath the needle, the needle followed the grooves it had formed earlier and pushed against the diaphragm, making the diaphragm reproduce Edison's shouts. This first crude experiment, performed in 1877, marked the beginning of the phonograph.

Edison obtained a patent on the phonograph in February 1878. By this time he had replaced the waxed paper with metal cylinders covered with tinfoil. He postponed further development of the phonograph, however, for some years.

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