History was changed today. It turns out that "Mary had a little lamb," recorded by Thomas Edison on a sheet of tinfoil, was not the first recorded sound after all. Researchers have unearthed a recording of the human voice made by a little-known Frenchman that predates Edison’s invention of the phonograph by nearly two decades. Slate.com Jody Rosen broke the story in the NY Times today and he joins us.
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