Translation of "phonautograph" into French

phonautographe is the translation of "phonautograph" into French.

phonautograph noun grammar

One of the first phonographic recording devices, consisting of a horn or barrel focusing sound waves onto a membrane to which a hog's bristle was attached, causing the bristle to move so enabling it to inscribe a visual medium, which could transcribe sound to a visible medium but had no means to play back the sound after it was recorded. [..]

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  • phonautographe

    Though the phonautograph created a visual analogue of sound waves, the machine could not reproduce those sounds.

    Malgré le fait que le phonautographe créait un analogue visuel des ondes acoustiques, la machine ne pouvait pas reproduire ces sons.

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