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Phonautograph

The phonautograph is the earliest known device for recording sound. Previously, tracings had been obtained of the sound-producing vibratory motions of tuning forks and other objects by physical contact with them, but not of actual sound waves as they propagated through air or other mediums. Invented by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, it was…

Art, Construction & Recovered sounds

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Phonautograph

Nodes38
Edges37
Triples84
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.052632
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Phonautograph

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related to Construction · 28
Phonautograph → April, As, At, Au Clair, By, English, French, Frenchman, He, However, In, Light, Lune, Léon Scott, March, Martinville, Moon, On March, One, Paris
related to Playback · 13
Phonautograph → April, Arguably, Before, Berliner, By, Charles Cros, Cros, Cros's, Emile Berliner, It, Ten, The, Thomas Edison's
related to Preservation of recordings · 12
Phonautograph → Académie Des Sciences, Alongside, During, Even, French, His, However, On March, Pour, Scott, SEIN, Société
related to External links · 8
Phonautograph → English, FirstSounds, French, Léon Scott, Martinville, PDF, Scott's, The Phonautographic Manuscripts
related to Legacy and influence · 8
Phonautograph → Although, Edison's, However, Martinville's, Scott, Scott's, Unlike, When Thomas Edison
related to Scott's critiques on the phonautograph's successor · 8
Phonautograph → Additionally, Edison's, French, La France, Le Problème, L’Amérique, Scott, Seventeen
related to Invention and technical design · 6
Phonautograph → As, Attached, It, Scott's, The, These
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Phonautograph → earliest known device for recording sound

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Phonautographrelated to ConstructionMarch0.60section
Phonautographrelated to ConstructionFrenchman0.60section
Phonautographrelated to ConstructionLéon Scott0.60section
Phonautographrelated to ConstructionMartinville0.60section
Phonautographrelated to ConstructionParis0.60section
Phonautographrelated to ConstructionOne0.60section
Phonautographrelated to ConstructionProfessor Longet's Traité0.60section
Phonautographrelated to ConstructionPhysiologie0.60section
Phonautographrelated to ConstructionIn0.60section
Phonautographrelated to ConstructionScott0.60section

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