There are some experimental sound recordings made a few decades earlier by a Frenchman [0]
, although they were not intended for playback.
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard-L%C3%A9on_Scott...
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard-L%C3%A9on_Scott...
In my mind this seems like the difference between the visual representation of the waveform an audio editor shows vs the literal bits encoding the actual audio.
In practice one can approximate the original sound from the image of the waveform, but in most cases it will likely lack in resolution relative to a medium engineered for playback.