First Commercial Recording Discovered

 

FYICNN reports that the first commercial recording may be “a 12-second recording of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” captured on a ring-shaped cylinder phonograph, [that] was produced for Thomas Edison’s failed talking-doll business venture in 1888.” Historians are excited by the 123-year-old  find which “marks a key moment in the history of early sound technology.”  Click here to learn more.

 

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