The First Sound Recorder
8 min readJan 23, 2020
We read with unparalleled interest the news of a new discovery, the importance of which is difficult to calculate. (…) We have had to make an effort to restrain our imagination after reading the news because it is very difficult not to be seduced by the flattering idea that one day the word of man will be copied with the same exactness with which his image is copied and who does not get excited when dreaming of procedures by which ideas, feelings and oratorical outbursts are recorded as soon as they come from the lips that improvise them?
Taken from a chronicle in La Zarzuela, Madrid…
