What is Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville?
[[file:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|thumb|right|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] '''Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville''' was a Frenchman who invented the earliest known sound recording device known as the Phonautograph.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2008/03/080328_recording_sl.shtml | title=BBC World Service - News - Who really made the first sound recording? }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7318180.stm | title=Oldest recorded voices sing again | date=28 March 2008 }}</ref> He was born in Paris in 1817 he’s profession was printing and book selling. He died in 1879. == Discovery of the Sounds == In 2008, a group of researchers discovered the phonautogram that was recorded on 9 April 1860. It is a French folk song called [[Au Clair de la lune]]. Scientists believe that the person singing the song was Scott de Martinville the inventor him self. The audio discovery became the oldest recorded sound of a person. {{Listen|filename=Au Clair de la Lune (1860).ogg|title=Au clair de la lune|description= Earliest recognizable recording of human voice, from 9 April 1860<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/scott.php|title=FirstSounds.ORG|publisher=}}</ref>|filename2=1860-Scott-Au-Clair-de-la-Lune-05-09.ogg|title2=Au clair de la lune|description2= The recording slowed down to match what is now believed to be the correct speed; the result reveals a man's voice, presumably Scott's.<ref>http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/1860-Scott-Au-Clair-de-la-Lune-05-09.ogg{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville}} [[Category:French inventors]] [[Category:1817 births]] [[Category:1879 deaths]] {{bio-stub}}