This Month In the History of Information Technologies

This Month In the History of Information Technologies

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First Sound Recording

First Sound Recording

The Phonoautograph captures audio

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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 Mart…

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