Scott says that while Thomas Edison is often credited with inventing audio recording, he wasn't the first to do it. JONATHAN SCOTT: It was a Parisian named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville ...

Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first person to record sound. But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his ...

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, becoming the first person ever to record and reproduce his own voice. In 1895, the Edison Company created one of the earliest sound “movies”—a 17 ...

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio ... He recognized that if he could record sound vibrations via the carbon transmitter (an improvement to the telephone microphone that Edison had invented in 1877 ...

Thomas Edison was the king of invention. He developed many innovations in the fields of electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures, all of which had a ...

Music journalist Jonathan Scott explores the early history of recorded sound: from the first-known recordings in the 1800s to the most significant vinyl records of the 1940s.