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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ([e.dwaʁ.le.ɔ̃ skɔt də maʁ.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.
Gianni Bettini (1860, Novara – 27 February 1938, San Remo) was a gentleman inventor and a pioneer audiophile who invented several phonograph improvements. [1] He is best known for having made the first (and in some cases only) recordings of the voices of several very famous singers and other celebrities of the 1890s. [2]
Eldridge Reeves Johnson (February 6, 1867 in Wilmington, Delaware [1] – November 14, 1945 in Moorestown, New Jersey [2] [3]) was an American businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time.
Although Edison had invented the phonograph in 1877, the fame bestowed on him for this invention was not due to its efficiency. Recording with his tinfoil phonograph was too difficult to be practical, as the tinfoil tore easily, and even when the stylus was properly adjusted, its reproduction of sound was distorted, and good for only a few ...
Edison with the second model of his phonograph in Mathew Brady's studio in Washington, D.C. in April 1878. Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention that first gained him wider notice was the phonograph in 1877. [40]
John Kruesi Replica of a Kruesi/Edison tinfoil phonograph. John Kruesi (May 15, 1843 – February 22, 1899) was a Swiss -born machinist , and close associate of Thomas Edison . His great-grandson was Bill Brock .
Gouraud as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair, April 1889George Edward Gouraud (30 June 1842 – 17 February 1912 [1]) [2] was an American Civil War recipient of the Medal of Honor who later became famous for introducing the new Edison Phonograph cylinder audio recording technology to England in 1888.
In 1889 he invented a nickel-in-the-slot attachment for the phonograph. Benson paid $500 for the patent and promoted Douglass to a job with the Chicago Central Phonograph Company, which he also owned and that was part of the Thomas Edison-affiliated North American Phonograph Company, distributor for the Edison Phonograph. In the early 1890s ...