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Fact #55256

When:

30041877

Short story:

French inventor Charles Cros submits a sealed envelope containing a letter to the Academy of Sciences in Paris explaining his proposed method of recording sound using an apparatus capable of registering and reproducing sounds engraved with a diaphragm. His pioneering work. however, will be leap-frogged by Thomas Edison, with his invention of the phonograph.