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 Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure ... Much of Edison’s later work on the phonograph focused on improvements to record design—a question of material science. Edison’s first improvement to ...

This is a video recording of Francis Jehl discussing his experience working with Thomas Edison in 1879 and helping to make the first practically viable light bulb in history.

Thomas Edison was the king of invention. He developed many innovations in the fields of electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording ... that the first who died "would try ...

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. KUOW is Seattle’s ...