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Thomas Edison, who invented the phonograph in 1877, was among the first to use a stylus to record and playback sound. Edison's early phonograph used a stylus that was attached to a diaphragm and moved vertically to indent a tinfoil sheet wrapped around a rotating cylinder.

Alexander Graham Bell and his Volta Laboratory team improved upon Edison's design in the 1880s. They developed the graphophone, which used a wax-coated cardboard cylinder instead of tinfoil and employed a cutting stylus to engrave the sound waves onto the cylinder, enhancing sound quality and playback durability.

Emile Berliner, another key figure, invented the flat disc record (gramophone) in the late 1880s, which used a lateral-cut disc and a stylus that moved side-to-side, a significant evolution from Edison's cylinder approach. This development laid the foundation for the modern record players and styluses used today.