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Audio Timeline. By: M adeline P arish. 1877. Thomas Edison created the phonograph. A band of tin foil was placed on a cylinder, and the cylinder had a turned hand crank. 1888. Emile Berliner created the Gramophone
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Audio Timeline By: Madeline Parish
1877 • Thomas Edison created the phonograph. • A band of tin foil was placed on a cylinder, and the cylinder had a turned hand crank.
1888 • Emile Berliner created the Gramophone He was creating this during the time Thomas Edison was creating the Phonograph
1878 • Oberlin Smith develops a theory of magnetic recording after a visit to Edison's lab.
1878 • The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle."
1887 • Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flat-disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies practical.
1915 • The first dynamic speaker was created by Charles Pridham, Peter Jenson Created in Napa, California
1930 • Wire recorders were created by Oberlin Smith. This was made from wires instead of tape!
1936 • Karl Daniel created the Tefifion. This gadget had a belt recorder!
1938 • Benjamin B. Bauer of Shure Bros. engineers a single microphone element to produce a cardioid pickup pattern, called the Unidyne, Model 55.
1940 • A number of court cases were won making it now possible for radio stations to play records without paying the record companies royalties.
1940 • Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released, with eight-track stereophonic sound.
1942 • The RCA LC-1 loudspeaker is developed as a reference-standard control-room monitor.
1945 • Gray Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut created the audograph. The Audograph uses a set of rubber tires that press up against the vinyl disc and drives it's rotation.
1946 • Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing invents Scotch No. 100, which is a black oxide paper tape.
1964 • The first tape cassette player available in the U.S. was a portable model made by the Norelco Company, the Carry Corder.
1964 • Crowns first solid state amplifier,
1965 • 8-trac was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation
1965 • Invented by James Russell in 1965 but made popular by the company Philips in 19801st Law of Media: CD’s expanded the music industry and allowed for more songs to be on one disc(Compact Discs (CD's))
1968 • The Pro 800 Series tape recorders feature a logic-controlled transport.
1979 • Philips was working on a digital audio disc playback system, DAD. Working with Philips, Sony developed an improved method of encoding digital sound. The PCM chip was also used. Their combined work led to the creation of the CD.
1979 • Patented SA2 is the worlds first power amplifier to use a built-in computer to maximize transistor performance.
1980 • Crown begins microphone manufacturing with the introduction of the PZM (Pressure Zone Microphone) family of microphones.
1982 • The commercial sale of the new standard CD was introduced.
1983 • Introduction of the CM311, a head-worn microphone.
1987 • The inventors named on the MP3 patent are Bernhard Grill, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, and Ernst Eberlein.
1988 • The compact disc sold slowly. In 1988 CDs finally out sold vinyl records. The cassette tape was still the top seller.
1999 • It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics
2004 • Dual disc
2007 • Apple entered the cellular phone market with the iPhone, integrating all the features of the iPod with the modern cell phone, including a full range of multimedia applications, Internet browsing, and touch-screen technology.
whatever • from 1877 till now audio has been getting better and better! Sooner or later we will be able to have background music to our day to day lives! But how would we do that? The world may never know..
Credit! http://www.videointerchange.com/audio_history.htm http://www.audiohistory.com/index.php http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html http://www.research.philips.com/technologies/projects/cd/index.html http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/104364 http:/ /library.thinkquest.org/19537/Timeline.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_audio_formats
Credits! • http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/MPThree.htm • http://www.crownaudio.com/crntime.htm • http://www.randomhistory.com/2008/08/04_ipod.html