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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

1817 - 1879

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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ([e.dwaʁ.le.ɔ̃ skɔt də maʁ.tɛ̃.vil]; 25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) was a French printer, bookseller and inventor. He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph, which was patented in France on 25 March 1857. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville has received more than 312,815 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville is the 152nd most popular inventor (down from 131st in 2019), the 1,974th most popular biography from France (down from 1,591st in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ranks 152 out of 426. Before him are Elias Howe, Uziel Gal, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Viktor Schauberger, Bob Kahn, and Jang Yeong-sil. After him are Alfred Vail, Gideon Sundback, Peter Henlein, Heinrich Göbel, Fausto Veranzio, and Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ranks 24. Before him are Austen Henry Layard, Hermann Lotze, C. H. D. Buys Ballot, Albert von Kölliker, Branwell Brontë, and Táhirih. After him are Joseph Dalton Hooker, Antonio de Torres Jurado, Princess Marie Amelie of Baden, János Arany, Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, and Carl Nägeli. Among people deceased in 1879, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ranks 20. Before him are Maria Teresa of Savoy, Sher Ali Khan, August Bournonville, Camille Doncieux, Heinrich Geißler, and William, Prince of Orange. After him are Maurycy Gottlieb, Johann Friedrich von Brandt, Baldomero Espartero, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Karl Friedrich Mohr, and Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ranks 1,974 out of 6,770. Before him are Félix Gouin (1884), Richard, Duke of Burgundy (858), Peter the Venerable (1092), Pierre Plantard (1920), Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu (1750), and Adrien Manglard (1695). After him are Franck Pourcel (1913), Ermesinde of Carcassonne (972), Jean Djorkaeff (1939), Yves Bonnefoy (1923), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), and Hervé Renard (1968).

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Among INVENTORS In France

Among inventors born in France, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ranks 22. Before him are Louis Le Prince (1841), Clément Ader (1841), Charles-Émile Reynaud (1844), André Michelin (1853), Henri Giffard (1825), and Jean-Pierre Blanchard (1753). After him are Édouard Branly (1844), Guillaume Amontons (1663), Charles Cros (1842), Joseph Monier (1823), Georges Claude (1870), and Charles Xavier Thomas (1785).

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