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Definition of Phonautograph

Phonautograph
Phonautograph Pho*nau"to*graph, n. [Phono- + Gr. ? self + -graph.] (Physics) An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate.

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- Pierrot, prête-m—". Problems playing this file? See media help. The phonautograph is the earliest known device for recording sound. Previously, tracings...
- inventor. He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph, which was patented in France on 25 March 1857. As a printer by trade...
- with a range of other new inventions, including the microphone. The phonautograph was invented on March 25, 1857, by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville...
- half of the 19th century – notably Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's phonautograph of 1857 – and these efforts culminated in the invention of the phonograph...
- Martinville made the earliest known intelligible sound recording, the phonautograph. The recording capturing a man singing the French folk song "Au clair...
- audio. Analog audio recording began with mechanical systems such as the phonautograph and phonograph. Later, electronic techniques such as wire and tape recording...
- could not play them back—the purpose was only visual study) was the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville...
- of this song, with altered lyrics to make it a love song. In 2008, a phonautograph paper recording made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville of "Au clair...
- could not play them back—the purpose was only visual study) was the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by Parisian inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville...
- France using the earlist known sound recording device in the world, the phonautograph, which was patented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857. France...