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Phonautograph
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, 1855 - 1857
Lender: INPI (Institut National de la Propriéte Industrielle), Paris
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30 x 12 cm
Soot-blackened paper
Soot-blackened paper
Sound recording using the “Phonautograph”
The paper strip is the first documented recording of the vibrations of human speech. It was recorded by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville using what he called the “Phonautograph” and was attached to his patent in 1857. To make the recording, a bristle mounted at the end of a megaphone engraved the vibrations into a blackened piece of paper stretched over a drum.
The paper strip is the first documented recording of the vibrations of human speech. It was recorded by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville using what he called the “Phonautograph” and was attached to his patent in 1857. To make the recording, a bristle mounted at the end of a megaphone engraved the vibrations into a blackened piece of paper stretched over a drum.