History | Ancient History on Instagram: "The earliest known recording of Big Ben’s chimes, made on July 16, 1890, stands as a remarkable technological milestone, capturing the sound of London’s most famous clock tower at a time when audio recording itself was still in its infancy. Created by technicians from Edison House using a wax phonograph cylinder, the recording preserves the resonant tones of the Great Bell and its quarter bells exactly as Victorian Londoners would have heard them—before t