Margaret Watts Hughes and the Shape of the Human Voice
Nov 5 · 8 min read
Megan Watts Hughes (1842–1907), generally known as Margaret, was a passionate Welsh singer and inventor, who became one of the first women to present an invention at the Royal Society in London in 1887, when she unveiled her eidophone. It was a device that made possible to visualize the human voice. Before the arrival of sound recorders (the first recordings on wax cylinders were taking their first steps), the study of the human voice and singing was limited to the expertise of the trained ears of the teachers. It was known since the end of the 18th century that…


