Edison not the first!

Kim has just played a sound byte of a BBC interview with a US scientist. They played a recording that was made in the 1860's by a French bloke using soot from a lamp and a needle scratching through the soot on the paper. It was never supposed to be played back but was more of a visual thing. Some scientists have managed to play the sound which is supposed to be a woman singing Clair De lune but sounds more like a bee in a paper bag, it's a very spooky sound actually.

Yakut