Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (1817 ￢ﾀﾓ April 26, 1879) was a French printer, librarian, and bookseller who lived in Paris. He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph, in 1857. The phonautograph used a horn to collect sound, attached to a diaphragm which vibrated a stiff bristle which inscribed an image on a lamp black coated, hand-cranked cylinder. Scott built several devices with the help of Rudolph Koenig, a l...
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Date of birth:
- 1817
Date of death:
- Apr 26, 1879 (age 62 years)
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Also known as:
- Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
