In 1877, Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931 ... patent that de Martinville had logged in the 1850s for his idea for sound recording. But that wasn’t all – David discovered there were two ...

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 ...

Art Gillham’s session made history. The technology changed who was heard in recordings, how artists approach their music and ...

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 a ... a staff of fellow know-it-alls, Edison’s company made nearly 1200 films. Here are some of Edison’s best oldies, from the first recording of a kiss to the greatest ...

BBC Global spoke with Dr. Patrick Feaser of FirstSounds.ORG about the very first recording of the human voice in 1860 by Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, an early sound pioneer, a good 20 years ...