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First Sound Recording

The Phonoautograph captures audio

Gil Press
Mar 25, 2023
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Today in 1857, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville received a patent for the Phonautograph, the first device to record sound. 

An early Phonautograph, 1859

De Martinville made sound recordings in order to analyze sound visually, not to play them back. But in 2008, audio historians and recording engineers succeeded in playing sound recordings made by de Martinville in 1860 and posted them online.

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