[PW] Eisenmanger

[Fuller, Thomas (US - Washington D.C.)]

Seems like he was a real person ... this from <Video Recording Technology: Its Impact on Media and Home Entertainment> by Aaron Foisi Nmungwun:
 
<One of the attempts was made in the early 1700s by Duhamel who tried to trace sound curves on his lamp-blacked revolving cylinder. Surprisingly, Edison's first generation phonograph would later assume this cylinder format. In 1747, Reverend J. Creed proposed to make a machine capable of recording tempore piano-forte organ voluntaries. As a follow-up on the same idea, Hohlfeld of Berlin teaming up with a mathematician colleague Euler, constructed a crude music recorder in 1752 called the Melograph. Almost simultaneously, another German mechanic, J.F. Unger, was building a similar instrument and proved priority of conception as he dated his idea, from 1745. In 1836, an English patent was given to Eisenmanger of Paris for an apparatus that recorded piano music, using a depressed stylus and carbonized paper. Similar equipment was invented in 1840 by M. De Tressog of Paris, and in 1856 by Merzelo, an Italian.> 
 
No first name, though.
 
-- Tom 

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