History Overview-: History, Past, & News on Instagram: "The oldest surviving and intelligible recording of a human voice dates back to 1860, captured on a device called a phonautograph. Long before microphones, vinyl, or magnetic tape, French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville used the machine to trace sound vibrations onto soot-covered paper. In one of these early experiments, a male voice can be heard singing a portion of the French folk song “Au Clair de la Lune.” Though the recording