History of sound recording

This collection of articles has two purposes: 1 To introduce you to the history of sound recording. The articles are in chronological order. Meaning that the sound recording devices they describe are ordered from the oldest to the newest 2 To investigate the issue relating to the earliest known recording of sound. This is a rather complicated matter. Whilst, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the earliest known recording of sound, it consisted in a tracing of soundwaves on a piece of paper. He recorded the sound but the equipment needed to play it back had not been invented yet. 3 To reflect on how trends from the past sometimes come back. For example, the vinyl revival in Montreal