: 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
: 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. _ new videomp4
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 recording was a snippet of the
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: Over 150 years later, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used high-resolution digital imaging to scan these soot-covered papers. Using virtual playback software, they successfully "played" a recording from April 9, 1860.
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: 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.
