Album: Replica of Scott's 1859 Cylinder Phonautograph

Thomas Edison National Historical Park

Photos of a replica 1859 cylinder phonautograph: Invented by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, the original built by him and Rudolph Koenig in Paris, France in 1859. This object is a replica based on historic drawings, built in 2014 by Jean-Paul Agnard for the David Giovannoni collection. An original machine of this design does not survive.