World's first recording of the human voice is created on this day

On this day in 1860, the world's first recording of the human voice is created. Nearly two decades before Alexander Graphm Bell's first phone call, Édouard-Léon Scott patented the phonautograph. Scott had looked to the invention of photography and wondered if something similar could be done with sound waves. Learn more in today's KTAR timeline brought to you by Beatitudes Campus. 

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