Twenty years before Edison invented the recording process, Frenchman Leon Scott de Martinville invented a device for recording sound. He called it the Phonautograph and patented it on March 25, 1857. It did what it said on the tin and recorded sound, tracing the shape of sound waves as undulations or other deviations in a line traced on smoke-blackenedContinue reading “The first recording in the history of recorded sound: 17 years before Edison. By a Frenchman!”
Sound Of The Hound 