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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

It's called "Into The Groove: The Story Of Sound From Tin Foil To Vinyl." Scott says that while Thomas Edison is often credited with inventing audio recording, he wasn't the first to do it. JONATHAN ...

“Thomas Edison is probably the most brilliant inventor America ... In 1890, Edison invites the press to record the first prisoner to be executed by electricity. But the death row survives the first ...

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 ...