Home›Articles›Who first thought of recording sound: Scott, Cros and EdisonArticleWho first thought of recording sound: Scott, Cros and EdisonArticlesConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)ConnectionsArticle OnPhonograph, Inventions Well-attested SourcesPhonograph (Wikipedia)tier 3WikipediaEarly history: PaleophoneQuote, Early history: PaleophoneCharles Cros, a French poet and inventor, is the first person known to have made the conceptual leap from recording sound as a traced line to the theoretical possibility of reproducing the sound from the tracing and then to devising a definite method for accomplishing the reproduction.View the SourceAtlas Article Vocabularytier 1AtlasComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.