In this episode, we go back to the basics, exploring the origins of sound recording. Delving into the groundbreaking work of early pioneers like Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, who captured sound waves with his phonautograph in the 1850s—years before Thomas Edison’s phonograph.
We also take a look at France in the 1860s, a time of innovation and artistic expression, and revisits one of the songs played as the Titanic sank, among other things.
A photo of Thomas Edison and his early phonograph