![]() ![]() A means of capturing precious family memories. ![]() A record of telephone conversations.An academic resource of archived lectures.A device for creating audiobooks for blind people.That honor goes to Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, whose phonautograph, patented in 1857, transcribed vocal sounds as wave forms etched onto lampblack-coated paper, wood, or glass.Įdison’s plans for his invention hinged on its ability to reproduce sound in ways that would be familiar and of service to the listening public. ![]() His achievement was a game changer, obviously, but it wasn’t the first time human speech was successfully recorded, as Kings and Things clarifies in the above video. I was always afraid of things that worked the first time. The great inventor later reminisced that he “was never so taken aback” in his life as when he first heard his own voice, issuing forth from the phonograph into which he’d so recently shouted the famous nursery rhyme:Įverybody was astonished. Apparently Edison got it in the can on the first take. ![]()
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