Cool Weird Awesome With Brady Carlson

 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invented a way to document sound more than a decade before Thomas Edison developed his wax cylinders. So why isn't he remembered as the king of recording? Because he hadn't figured out one key feature: playing the sound back. Plus: ever wondered what it's like inside an anechoic chamber, which masks almost every sound possible? Really quite and kind of freaky.  What Was the First Sound Ever Recorded by a Machine? (Time)   The Phonautograms of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (FirstSounds.org)  'Quietest place on Earth' finds purpose in healing humans (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message