HistoryVerse on Instagram: "On July 16, 1890, sound pioneers associated with Thomas Edison made history by capturing the chimes of Big Ben on a wax phonograph cylinder, creating one of the earliest known outdoor sound recordings. Using purely mechanical technology, they preserved the natural, unamplified resonance of the Great Bell and its quarter bells exactly as Victorian Londoners would have heard them, decades before radio or electronic recording existed. More than a technical experiment, th