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The History Of Audio Timeline

The History Of Audio Timeline. By: Kaitlyn Barth. 19 th Century. Inventors created “mechanical instruments” that played pre-recorded music. They included hydro-powered organs, automatic flutes, and a player piano. 1800s. Audio Engineering began during the 1800s. 1860.

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The History Of Audio Timeline

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  1. The History Of Audio Timeline By: Kaitlyn Barth

  2. 19th Century • Inventors created “mechanical instruments” that played pre-recorded music. They included hydro-powered organs, automatic flutes, and a player piano.

  3. 1800s • Audio Engineering began during the 1800s.

  4. 1860 • Scottish physicist, James Clerk Maxwell predicted the existence of radio waves.

  5. 1866 • Mahlon Loomis, a dentist successfully demonstrated “wireless telegraphy” by making a meter connected to one kite make another one move, marking the first wireless aerial communication.

  6. 1877 • Thomas Alva Edison was the first to use recording technology and audio engineering by recording “Mary’s Little Lamb”.

  7. 1878 • The first music was put on record in 1878.

  8. 1887 • Emile Berliner was granted a patent on a flat disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies.

  9. 1889 • Emily Berliner built on the cylinder phonograph with her disk phonograph that became popular throughout the world.

  10. 1898 • Valdemear Poulsen makes his “telegraphone” by recording magnetically on a steel wire.

  11. 1906 • Lee Deforest invents the vacuum tube which was the first electronic signal amplifier.

  12. 1925 • Electrical audio engineering changed the recording process by introducing the microphone.

  13. 1927 • The film “The Jazz Singer” was the first movie to use photo cells to record music right into the movie.

  14. 1927 • The Columbia Broadcasting System is formed. This is also known as (CBS).

  15. 1940s • Multitrack engineering was developed to record simultaneous tracks onto a recording medium. • The Ampex company began to sell personal tape recorders.

  16. 1940 • The Disney film “Fantasia” was the first movie to use stereo sound.

  17. 1956 • The movie “Forbidden Planet” is released with an all electronic film score, composed by Louis and Bebe Barron.

  18. 1970 • Digital recording was created and became the preferred method of recording in the 1990s

  19. 1981 • Phillips demonstrates the compact disc or the CD.

  20. 1982 • The compact disc and other recording technology was invented which has become a popular audio recording and made the development of Mp3 technology.

  21. 1984 • The Apple Corporation releases the Macintosh Computer.

  22. 1985 • Dolby introduces the Spectral Recording System.

  23. 1996 • The DVD disc was released and invented.

  24. 1998 • Mp3 Players appeared for downloaded internet audio.

  25. 1999 • Audio DVD Standard was agreed by manufactures.

  26. 2004 • Dual Disc makes their double sided DVD with on side being the CD and the other side being the DVD.

  27. Cited Sources • http://www.ehow.com/facts_4925661_history-audio-engineering.html • http://www.ehow.com/facts_4865978_history-audio-recording.html • http://inventors.about.com/od/rstartinventions/a/radio.htm • http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/audiotimeline.htm

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