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Physicists convert first known sound recording

SFGate: Two physicists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earl Cornell and Carl Haber, who develop computer algorithms for analyzing acoustics of all types, have taken a piece of paper embedded with audio waveforms of an unknown French soprano singing "Au Clair de la Lune" from 1860 and converted them into sound. Its the oldest recording known.

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