Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville was a French printer, bookseller and inventor.
Illustration of a phonautograph. The inside of the barrel is made of Plaster of Paris.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
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"Mary Had a Little Lamb" is an English-language nursery rhyme of nineteenth-century American origin, first published by American writer Sarah Josepha Hale in 1830. Its Roud Folk Song Index number is 7
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
…oratorio Israel in Egypt. However, the recording went largely unnoticed and was overshadowed by Thomas Edison's phonograph, which famously recorded "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Fifty of Scott de Martinville's recordings and associated notes were added to the UNESCO Memory of the World register in 2015…
Illustration by William Wallace Denslow (1902)
The Redstone School (1798), now in Sudbury, Massachusetts, is the schoolhouse Mary Tyler attended.
Lowell Mason's musical setting of the poem, published in 1831.