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First Sounds URL: http://www.firstsounds.org Description: Listen to sound files of "the world's earliest sound recordings. These files are not excerpts; they are the full tracks as processed so far." Includes scratchy yet audible clips of a French folk song recorded in 1860 (17 years before the phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison), a phonoautogram recording of the New York City Metropolitan Elevated Railroad from 1878, and others. From a collaborative of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, and scientists. LII Topics: Music, Sound Recordings Publisher: FirstSounds.org LII Database Information: Record 25791 created by June Pilsitz on 03/29/2008 Last modification on 04/02/2008 Published: 04/03/2008 Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25791 |
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