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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
French printer and inventor (1817–1879)
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville | |
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Portrait from Les Merveilles de la science by Louis Figuier | |
| Born | (1817-04-25)25 April 1817 Paris, France |
| Died | 26 April 1879(1879-04-26) (aged 62)[not in body] Paris, France |
| Occupations | |
| Known for | Inventing the earliest known sound recording device |
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ([e.dwaʁ.le.ɔ̃skɔtdəmaʁ.tɛ̃.vil]; 25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) was a French printer, bookseller and inventor.
He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph, which was patented in France on 25 March 1857.[1][2][3]
Early years
As a printer by trade, he was able to read accounts of the latest scientific discoveries and became an inventor.
Scott de Martinville was interested in recording the sound of human speech in a way similar to that achieved by the then-new tec