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First Sounds PDF Publications Archive |
FirstSounds.org is an informal collaborative of audio historians, recording engineers, sound archivists, scientists, other individuals, and organizations who aim to make humanity's earliest sound recordings available to all people for all time. Its major contribution has been the processing and creative commons publication of key primary sources relating to the work of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in phonautography. In addition to pre-Edisonian sound files, its publications have included facsimile editions, transcriptions, and translations—all issued in PDF format. The first of these publications appeared as "working papers" in April 2008, and since that time they have been cited as sources in various studies and essays. Meanwhile, we've continued to learn of new Scott materials, to refine our understanding of those we knew about earlier, and (sometimes) to discover silly mistakes—leading to occasional revisions. The policy of FirstSounds.org is not to maintain out-of-date editions of its publications on its website, which has the unfortunate potential to make past bibliographic references to these publications impossible to track down. With that in mind, I have established this page to archive all past and current editions of First Sounds PDF publications. |
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1. Working Paper 1: Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's "Principes de Phonautographie" (1857): A Critical Edition with English Translation and Facsimile. 2. Working Paper 2: Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's Phonograph Patent No. 31470: A Critical Edition with English Translation and Facsimile. 3. Working Paper 3: Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's "Fixation Graphique de la Voix": A Critical Edition with English Translation and Facsimile. 4. Working Paper 4: Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville's 1861 Communication to the Académie des Sciences: A Critical Edition with English Translation and Facsimile. 5. The Phonautographic Manuscripts of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. |