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The first known synchronized sound recording was made in 1894 by William K.L. Dickson, an inventor working with Thomas Edison. Titled the Dickson Experimental Sound Film, it shows a man playing the violin into a recording horn while two others dance. This early attempt at combining motion pictures with sound used Edison’s Kinetophone, which paired a Kinetoscope (a motion picture viewer) with a phonograph. Although not widely adopted at the time, this experiment marked an important step toward sy

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