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Listen To The First-Ever Recording Of A Musical Performance From 134 Years Ago
This is the oldest recording of an American voice and the first-ever recording of a musical performance. Recorded by a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in 1878, the audio recording (which lasts 78 seconds) is pretty much “as far back as we can go” in terms of the history of recorded sound.
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Celebrate Thomas Edison’s 165th Birthday With A Crash Course On His Life
Did you know that Thomas Edison got his first job as a telegraph operator after saving the daughter of a station agent from an oncoming train? Or that he didn’t invent the lightbulb, but instead created the first commercially-viable version?
