Who designed the first recording apparatus?
First SOUND RECORDING APPARATUS
The first SOUND RECORDING APPARATUS was the Phonograph designed by T.A.. Edison at New Jersey, in 1877.
The first GRAMOPHONE or disc record player was invented by Emile Berliner, a German immigrant living in Washington, D.C. who applied for a patent 26 September, 1887 and demonstrated his apparatus before the Franklin Institute on 16th May, 1883.