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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.
Invented by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, it was patented on March 25, 1857. [2] It transcribed sound waves as undulations or other deviations in a line traced on smoke-blackened paper or glass. Scott believed that future technology would allow the traces to be deciphered as a kind of "natural stenography". [3]
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 timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly significant ... is patented and invented by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.
In 1853 or 1854, French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville conceived the idea of creating a sound reproduction system after studying a diagram of the human ear. 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 ...
Earliest device known to record sound, invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. While this device was capable of recording sound waves, they couldn't be played back. 1877 Tinfoil Phonograph: In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the first recorder that could also play back Analog; sound waveform transcribed to tinfoil 1883 Piano roll
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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 ...