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The phonautograph was patented on March 25, 1857 by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, [4] an editor and typographer of manuscripts at a scientific publishing house in Paris. [5] One day while editing Professor Longet's Traité de Physiologie , he happened upon that customer’s engraved illustration of the anatomy of the human ear ...
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ([e.dwaʁ.le.ɔ̃ skɔt də maʁ.tɛ̃.vil]; 25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) was a French printer, bookseller and inventor. He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph , which was patented in France on 25 March 1857.
Inspired by this, he began developing what he termed "le problème de la parole s’écrivant elle-même" ("the problem of speech writing itself"), aiming to replicate the ear's capacity to capture and reproduce sound. [5] [2] On 25 March 1857, Scott de Martinville patented his device, which he called the phonautograph. [6] [7]
In 2008, a phonautograph paper recording made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville of "Au clair de la lune" on 9 April 1860, was digitally converted to sound by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This one-line excerpt of the song is the earliest recognizable record of the human voice and the earliest recognizable record ...
Many pioneering attempts to record and reproduce sound were made during the latter half of the 19th century – notably Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's phonautograph of 1857 – and these efforts culminated in the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison in 1877. Digital recording emerged in the late 20th century and has since ...
The first device that could record actual sounds as they passed through the air (but could not play them back—the purpose was only visual study) was the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.
The phonautograph was invented on March 25, 1857, by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, [13] an editor and typographer of manuscripts at a scientific publishing house in Paris. [14] One day while editing Professor Longet's Traité de Physiologie , he happened upon that customer's engraved illustration of the anatomy of the human ear ...
The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound is a reference work that, among other things, describes the history of sound recordings, from November 1877 when Edison developed the first model of a cylinder phonograph, and earlier, in 1857, when Léon Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph. [1]