Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was a French printer, bookseller and inventor.
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science · French printer and inventor (1817–1879) · publisher · typographer · bookseller · printer · recording artist · inventor · also Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Leon Scott, Édouard-Léon Scott, Phnonoautograph, Edward Leon Scott, Édouard Léon Scott
Born 25 April 1817 · Died 26 April 1879 · Q273869
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Au Clair de la Lune (1860)
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1879· 1 entry
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
Died 1879-04-26.
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1863· 1 entry
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
Scott's phonautograph was used to make a recording of Abraham Lincoln's voice at the White House
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1860· 1 entry
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
Were rediscovered and played back in 2008
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1857· 1 entry
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
Have also survived, but they are only unintelligible snippets
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1817· 1 entry
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
Born 1817-04-25.
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