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The sounds of (almost) silence – hearing the heartbeat of a snail

Thomas Edison (or his students, one really never knows with him) worked on the carbon microphone in 1876.   Since then, microphone technology has come a heck of a long way, from liquid microphones that rendered speech so you could actually understand it (early mics couldn’t render speech intelligibly), to condenser mics used for studio recordings and scientific recordings.