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VERY OLD SONG: Researchers in California said Friday that they have played back the oldest audio recording ever made, a 10-second snippet of singing that was made 17 years before Thomas Edison patented the phonograph. The recording was made April 9, 1860, on a “phonautograph,” a device invented by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, a Parisian typesetter and tinkerer.
BOOK DEAL: Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, his state’s first black governor and a Chicago native, is writing a memoir that will be published by Broadway Books in 2010. The deal is worth $1.35 million, and nine publishers competed for the book.
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