The origin of the science of acoustics is generally attributed to the Greek philosopher Pythagoras (6th century bc), whose experiments on the properties of vibrating strings that produce pleasing musical intervals were of such merit that they led to a tuning system that bears his name.

Who first discovered sound waves?

Leonardo DaVinci, the famous Italian thinker and artist, is usually credited with discovering that sound moves in waves. He made this discovery around the year 1500.

When was sound created?

Fast forward a whole lot of time, and we get to humans. The first sound that we recorded as a species was gathered by a device called a phonautograph, invented by a man named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in 1857.