The first sound recording is often credited to Thomas Edison, but in 1857, a typographer named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville actually beat him by inventing the phonautograph, a device designed to ...

Scott’s invention, the phonautograph, captured sounds amplified by a hollow cone that were then “recorded” in the form of scratches made by a boar bristle vibrating onto cylindrical rolls of paper ...

That happened 20 years earlier, when French inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the “phonautograph” — “a machine that inscribed the vibrations of airborne sounds” and ...

JONATHAN SCOTT: It was a Parisian named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, in the 1850s, invented a thing called a phonautograph. It was this ingenious device that you sort of bellowed into.

IT is well known that during the last few years the gramophone (invented by Berliner in 1887), in its more complete and expensive forms, has been so much improved as to have completely eclipsed ...

Léon Scott (who died only last July) patented the instrument under the name of the phonautograph in 1857, and secondly, by the statement that M. Charles Cros deposited before the Académie des ...

His device, which he called the phonautograph, was a pretty simple way of recording sound. "I cover a plate of glass with an exceedingly thin stratum of lampblack. Above I fix an acoustic trumpet ...

In 1857, 20 years before Edison’s invention, printer and typesetter Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville patented what he called the phonautograph. Then there was Charles Cros, a Parisian poet ...

The history of recorded music begins with a fragment of the French folk song “Au Clair de la Lune,” captured by an instrument called a Phonautograph in Paris in 1860. Unfortunately ...

The first sound recording we know of was made by a device called a phonautograph in 1860, and features a rendition of the folk song Au Claire de la Lune. The machine, a brainchild of French ...