Thomas Edison files a patent for the optical phonograph, a device capable of recording and replaying sound for the first time ...
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How Sound Was Actually Recorded 20 Years Before Thomas Edison
Everyone knows Thomas Edison invented the phonograph - but history got that story wrong. Nearly 20 years before Edison’s breakthrough, a French inventor named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville had ...
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