In the history of recorded sound, captured audio that was playable was an enormous breakthrough. A French inventor named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville had previously recorded sound waves visually on paper 1860, but was unable to find a way to play them back.
Haber's projects include recovering a snippet of a folk song recorded a capella in 1860 on paper by Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, a French printer credited with inventing the earliest known sound recording device.
Date: Oct 25, 2012
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Library of Congress selects 25 recordings for its collection
That feels particularly important in the case of the Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville phonautograms from the mid-1800s, which are the oldest recordings named to the registry. Scott was the man who captured the first- ever recorded sounds by using a boar-bristle stylus to etch them onto glass and p
Date: Apr 06, 2011
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Library of Congress Adds Tammy Wynette, De La Soul to Registry
In late 1853 or early 1854, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville captured the first recorded sounds by etching onto blackened glass plates the movements of a boars-bristle stylus, vibrating in sympathy with a guitar and a human voice. Later, Scott made recordings on paper wrapped around a drum. The re
Date: Apr 06, 2011
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25 Historic Recordings Named by Library of Congress
Some of the recordings to be preserved sound like nothing more than scratches, but very important ones. "Phonautograms," recorded by Edourd-Leon Scott de Martinville between 1853 and 1861, are some of the first recorded sounds ever.