Phonograph

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Edison cylinder phonograph ca. 1899

Thomas Edison and his early phonograph

The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded sound from the 1870s through the 1980s.

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Édouard-Léon Scott and the Phonautograph
Almost two decades before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, French typographer and printer Édouard-Léon Scott made the first known sound recording with a remarkable invention: the phonautograph. With it he envisaged a revolution in ...

Phonautograph
... about it in this blog, because I thought everybody would already know. But last week I talked about it with a music collector, and to my surprise he had not heard about the recent breakthrough with phonautograph recordings! read more.

Phonautograph
It turns out, the first recordings were made in 1860 by Frenchman, Edouard-Leon Scott deMartinville, using a Phonautograph. The recording medium was merely paper covered in soot, so the sound literally emerges from smoke. ...

Phonautograph Enthusiasts See Promise in LP Resurgence
Phonautograph Enthusiasts See Promise in LP Resurgence All Things D Blogs, CA - ... it's entirely ulikely vinyl will ever claim a signifigant share of the music market — unless Apple, for some reason, develops the iPod LP. ...

Phonautograph Enthusiasts See Promise in LP Resurgence
Turns out the Long playing (LP) record album may not be as much of an anachronism as once thought. As CD sales slip into the mud, and digital music outlets pop up on the Web as quickly as Starbucks stores, vinyl is staging a comeback.

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) was a French printer and bookseller who lived in Paris. He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph, which was patented on March 25, 1857, ...

The Earliest Sound Recording Known to Man
It was made, the researchers say, on April 9, 1860, on a phonautograph, a machine designed to record sounds visually, not to play them back. But the phonautograph recording, or phonautogram, was made playable — converted from squiggles ...

The Ear Phonautograph
Crazy story. For a long time, people like da Vinci, Keppler and others tried to figure out a way to capture sound - something which had been ephemeral for millennia. Problem was, they spent a long time looking at this the wrong way and ...

Phonautograph
Image of Phonautograph - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting Photobucket 180px-Phonautograph-cent2.png picture, this photo was uploaded by petebkr. … Phonautograph. photo prints photobooks posters mugs stickers photo … PHONAUTOGRAPH ...

Phonautograph: Oldest Recording of "Au Clair de la Lune"
To get around the playback problem, scientists in Berkeley, California, made high-resolution scans of the paper and used a "digital stylus" to decipher the grooves etched by the phonautograph, which revealed a short 10-second rendition ...

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