The first sound recording is often credited to Thomas Edison, but in 1857, a typographer named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville actually beat him by inventing the phonautograph, a device ...

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 ...

Hear echoes of the Victorian age, captured in some of the world’s first audio recordings, in this video essay on the ...

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 ...

Here's a story that's tailor-made for radio. Music journalist Jonathan Scott has written a book about the history of audio recording. It's called "Into The Groove: The Story Of Sound From Tin Foil To ...

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. A new book reveals that ...

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. This news story is funded ...

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.