For decades, Thomas Edison was credited with the first sound recording in 1877. However, a French printer named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville actually achieved this 17 years earlier.

The history of recorded sound is an informative story that highlights how inventions can be lost to time and later rediscovered through modern technology. The Earliest Recording: Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

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: The recording was a snippet of the French folk song "Au Clair de la Lune". Initially, it sounded like a young girl, but further analysis revealed the recording was played too fast. When slowed down, it was revealed to be the low, ghostly voice of Scott de Martinville himself. Popular Educational & Informative Video Content

: Scott de Martinville believed that these "squiggles" could eventually be read like text. He did not intend to play the sound back; he wanted to create a visual record of speech and music.

: In 1857, Scott de Martinville patented the "phonautograph," a device inspired by the mechanics of the human ear. It used a funnel to guide sound toward a vibrating membrane, which then moved a stylus to etch visual sound waves onto paper blackened by oil lamp soot.

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