Phonautograph (c 1857) apparatus for studying sound vibrations graphically, invented by (Edouard) Leon Scott de Martinville. Vibrations produced in cone traced on lamp blacked cylinder. Engraving, ...

A sketch of an 1859 model of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's phonautograph. The oldest playable recording of an American voice will make its second public debut today (Oct. 26), when a newly ...

The question of which sound was the first ever to be recorded seems to have a pretty straightforward answer. It was captured in Paris by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in the late 1850s, nearly two ...

*Google Translator tackles a French website. France was the Japan-Galapagos-Islands of the 19th century. The first record of votes in the world in 1860 "The song "Au clair de la lune" was recorded in ...

The voice of an unknown woman singing in a lamp-lit Paris laboratory nearly 150 years ago came to life Friday amid the crackles and buzz of a historic breakthrough recording made 17 years before ...

In the early eighteen-fifties, while editing a physics textbook, a Parisian typesetter named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville came upon a passage that described the inner workings of the human ear.

AN attempt is made in L'Electricité by M. C. E. Séguin, fils, to claim for France the honour of the invention of the phonograph; firstly, by the plea that M. Léon Scott (who died only last July) ...

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 the ...

The oldest playable recording of an American voice was to make its second public debut Friday when a newly digitized version is played at a theater in Schenectady, N.Y. The first playback took place ...