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Scott's 1857 drawing of a phonautographic recording session, included in his patent paperwork preserved at the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI), the French patent office. |
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Scott's 1859 drawing of his phonautograph, included in his patent paperwork preserved at the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI), the French patent office. |
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The 1859 model of Scott's phonautograph. Source: Franz Josef Pisko, Die neuere Apparate der Akustik (Vienna, 1865). |
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Detail of an 1859 phonautogram made by Scott and included in his patent paperwork, preserved at the Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle (INPI), the French patent office. |
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Left: David Giovannoni inspects Scott's first two experimental sound recordings, made in 1853 or 1854, in the archives of the Académie des Sciences of the Institut de France, where they were deposited in 1857. Photo by Isabelle Trocheris |
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Left and left below: David Giovannoni examines one of Scott's 1860 phonautograms in the archives of the Académie des Sciences of the Institut de France, where it was deposited in 1861. Photos by Isabelle Trocheris |
