Phonautograph

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

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.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Phonautograph”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (1817–1879), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.