October 1

Charles Cros, a French poet and inventor, was born on the 1st in 1842. As an adult Cros, working independently, sorta kinda, maybe developed a means of recording and playing back sounds. He was apparently too busy being French and writing poetry to do much about it however and Thomas Edison, on January 15, 1878, beat him to the patent office. He was immortalized however when France named its equivalent of the US Recording Academy L’Acedmie Charles Cros.