Australia's oldest sound recordings by NFSA published on 2014-09-25T06:26:44Z A selection of Australia's earliest surviving sound recordings. Image: Edison Spring Phonograph from the Thomas Rome Collection. NFSA Title No: 1060808 Contains tracks Thomas Rome - The Hen Convention (1896) by NFSA published on 2014-09-22T06:29:42Z Thomas Rome - Warrnambool Railway Accident (c.1897) by NFSA published on 2014-09-22T06:34:15Z