In 1877, Thomas Edison invented the first device to ever record and play back sound. Speaking into a mouthpiece caused a metal stylus attached to a diaphragm to move up and down. The stylus made ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This is the earliest machine for recording and playing recorded sound. That's right. This is from a world in which there were no voicemails, no ...
Phonographs were invented in 1877. The early ones had one needle for recording and another needle for playing. The music was recorded on tinfoil-coated cylinders using a needle to make tiny lines that ...