Many people in the United States believe that “Mary Had a Little Lamb” was the first-ever recording of the human voice. But Thomas Edison’s device was actually not the first. A Frenchman named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville did so, singing “Au Clair de la Lune” in 1857 — 20 years before Edison invented the phonograph. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman explain.
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