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The “Phonautograph”, Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857, 20 years before Edison in France.

https://patch.com/new-jersey/westorange/thomas-edison-park-who-really-invented-sound-recording-video

12 posted on 11/29/2019 11:01:50 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)

The “Phonautograph”, Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857, 20 years before Edison in France.

Good find. . . Thanks.

But, still no idea of recreating the sound. Scott was merely recording the wave of sound on paper as interesting data. He had no thought about how to recreate the sound. That’s not the invention that Edison et. al created in a flash of inspiration. It is, indeed, possible that Edison may have read about Scott’s creation of paper records of sound waves and realized that if one could reverse the process. That was the truly creative moment that invented the Edison phonograph that took the world by storm. . . so my point stands.

16 posted on 11/29/2019 11:21:49 AM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)