Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville
Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville , born with Paris the April 25th 1817 and died in Paris the April 26th 1879, is a workman typographer, bookseller and writer French, inventor of the phonautograph, ancestor of the Phonographe of Edison.
March 25th 1857, it deposits the patent of an apparatus which records the sound, without however being able to restore it. Its device is composed of a house connected to a diaphragm which collects the acoustic vibrations. Those are transmitted to a stylet, which engraves them on a coated sheet of paper of Noir of smoke, which is rolled up around a rotary cylinder.
In partnership with a manufacturer of musical instruments, who helps it to build his apparatuses, he manages to sell several phonoautographes at scientific laboratories which make use of it to study the sound.
Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville is also the author of several memories and a Histoire of the Sténographie .
A commemorative plaque marks the site of its bookstore to the 9 Rue Vivienne in the 2nd district of Paris.
Publications
- Judgment of a workman on the novels and the serials at the time of Ferrand and Mariette (1847)
- History of the Shorthand since old times until our days (1849)
- graphic Fixing of the voice (1857)
- Christian names and the first names (1857)
- Note on the life and work of Mr. Adolphe Christmas Of the Orchards
- Test of methodical and synoptic classification of the tales of chivalry new and published. First appendix with the catalog reasoned of the books of the library of Mr. Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1870)
- the Problem of the word being written itself. France, America (1878)
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External bond
- Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville and the phonautograph
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