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The new audio version was recorded on the American front near the Moselle in France, a minute before the armistice, on November 11, 1918 at 11 o'clock. The clip reveals how shooting and shelling on the Western Front continued until the very last moments of the Great War. The artillery was still active at 10:58 am on the last day of the four-year conflict, which claimed the lives of 19 million people.
The Imperial War Museum published the "graphic disc" during the week leading up to the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
The allies used the unleashed sound technique to identify enemy artillery positions.
Photographic film recorded when shots were captured by six different microphones whose signals were recorded simultaneously.
The sound was recorded on photographic paper when it was picked up by the microphones.
The experts would then use the recordings to identify where German weapons were placed.
The technique of measuring sound was essential to British progress from 1917 to the end of the war a year later.
It would be used to locate and destroy enemy artillery before infantry troops go into combat.
Sound designers Coda to Coda have teamed up with the Imperial War Museum to recreate the sounds recorded on the documents.
Will Worsley, director of Coda to Coda, said: "This document from the IWM collections gives us a clear idea of the intensity and chaos of the barrage of gunfire for those fighting on the Western Front. .
"We hope that our audio interpretation of sound measurement techniques via bone conduction will allow visitors to project themselves into this moment of history and better understand what the end of the First World War might look like."
Two British scientists have developed the technique of recording with one of them, William Lawrence Bragg, who embodies the idea while sitting on the toilet.
Whenever a shot was fired, it was moved from the toilet seat when the pressure wave from the gun hit the toilet hose.
Another man, William Sansome Tucker, then realized that the hot airs that made him shiver were caused by the pressure waves of the firearms.
He designed a microphone that could identify these puffs of air on a piece of wire.
The sound of a shotgun would create a big hit on the film, making it stand out from other sounds.
The Making a New World exhibition of the Imperial War Museum will continue until March 31, 2019.
