The first human voice ever recorded was actually lost for years?!

[redvelvetjoy]

Hey folks! Here’s something wild I stumbled on—did you know the first-ever human voice recording wasn’t by Thomas Edison, but by a Frenchman named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1860? Even crazier, no one knew what it sounded like for over a hundred years because they didn’t have the technology to play it back until 2008! It’s this haunting song fragment, and it’s so eerie to think it was buried in history for so long. Anyone heard of this before or got any other little-known historical facts? Let’s geek out together!

 

[MysticMatrix]

That’s a seriously cool bit of history! It’s amazing how something recorded over a century ago stayed unheard for so long. Another wild fact: did you know Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than to the construction of the pyramids? Ancient history has some mind-blowing timelines!