French inventor beat Edison by twenty years with his audio recording device.


Interesting article regarding the original piece of audiophile equipment.

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/05/22/529550254/at-the-dawn-of-recorded-sound-no-...


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I will have to find the book; it sounds informative.  Off the top of my head, other than recorded sound in the world of music and movies/tv, I can't think of a lot of uses for recorded sound in the everyday world.  Oh wait, I forgot the ubiquitous voice menu you get on the phone of many businesses.

I am sure there are other uses of recordings that I am forgetting or am not aware of, but I'm wondering all these years later, how significant audio recordings are in the world.  Oh wait, thought of another one, the White House Comey tapes.  And undercover recordings and witness depositions.

What else?