With a long and storied history of pioneering audio recording, we explore America's musical history and identify the earliest known recording of a US song.

But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his phonautograph in 1857, 20 years before Edison invented his phonograph. Video by Sanjana ...

But it was in fact a Frenchman named Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville who invented sound recording via his phonautograph in 1857 – 20 years before Edison invented his phonograph. Feaser ...