This is a person singing “Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit” – a snippet from a French folksong. Made on April 9, 1860 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on is “phonautograph” – a device that scratched sound waves onto a sheet of paper blackened by the smoke of an oil lamp. Celebrities, Historic Figures
"This modern world of science & invention is of particular interest to women... It is in the home that the applications of scientific achievement have perhaps been more far reaching... Candle dipping, weaving... things of the past... Today, light, heat & power may be obtained by pushing buttons..." Celebrities, Historic Figures
