Thomas Edison is often credited with being the first person to record sound. But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his ...

BBC Global spoke with Dr. Patrick Feaser of FirstSounds.ORG about the very first recording of the human voice in 1860 by Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, an early sound pioneer, a good 20 years ...