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Édouard-Léon SCOTT DE MARTINVILLE  1817 - 1879   arrowarrow PIONEER    PARENTS    LIFE    NOTES    LABELS    PHOTOS    THANK YOU

PIONEERRESPOND

Édouard-Léon SCOTT DE MARTINVILLE  1817 - 1879

aka
nationality French
occupation printer, bookseller, inventor
birth 25 April 1817, Paris, FRANCE
baptism
death 26 April 1879, Paris, FRANCE
burial
marriage got married in 1875
Marie Françoise VOLTZ

b. ............
d. .... 1919, ..............

children
  • Léontine Marie Gabrielle

    b. .... 1872, ........
    d. .... 1957, .........

  • Louis Édouard

    b. .... 1874, ........
    d. .... 1950, .........

  • François Joseph André

    b. 4 June 1877, Paris, FRANCE
    d. 7 Sep 1914, Maubeuge, FRANCE


PARENTS

father Auguste Toussaint SCOTT DE MARTINVILLE

b. 5 Feb 1788, Paris, FRANCE
d. .... 1861, ............

mother Alexandrine Virginie GARNIER

b. ..........
d. ...............

marriage They got married on 29 June 1816, Paris, FRANCE
children
  • Édouard-Léon

    b. 25 April 1817, Paris, FRANCE
    d. 26 April 1879, Paris, FRANCE


LIFE



NOTES

  • An Illustrated History of Phonographs and Gramophones by Daniel Marty (pp. 11-12). Edita S. A.. Lausanne, 1981
  • 150 years of time-base in acoustic measurement and 100 years of audio's best publicity stunt - 2007 as a commemorative year by George Brock-Nannestad (Audio Engineering Society Convention Paper 2007, presented at the 122nd Convention 2007 May 5–8 Vienna, Austria)
  • "Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville". A short biography by George Brock-Nannestad (in: Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, Eds. Lance Day and Ian McNeil, Routledge, London 1996, pp. 629-30)
  • Le Phonographe, son passé, son présent, son avenir by Émile Gautier, Paris 1905, p. 21.
  • Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville: An Annotated Discography by Patrick Feaster (in: ARSC Journal 41:1 (Spring 2010), 43-82.)


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THANK YOU


George Brock-Nannestad