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Audio Timeline . By: Odin Contreras. 1878. The first music song is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle.“ . 1888. Thomas Edison introduces an electric motor-driven phonograph. 1898.
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Audio Timeline By: Odin Contreras
1878 The first music song is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle.“
1888 Thomas Edison introduces an electric motor-driven phonograph.
1898 ValdemarPoulsen patents his "Telegraphone," recording magnetically on steel wire.
1906 Lee DeForest makes the triode vacuum tube, the very first electronic signal amplifier.
1918 William Gaisber recorded the sounds of World War. From the front lines he captured the sounds of artillery and exploding gas bombs bringing to light a new way of preserving history.
1923 Henry Stroller and Harry Pfannenstiehl worked on synchronizing recorded sound with movie playback. This system used two electric motors one for the record player and one for the film projector. The sound was recorded onto 16 inch discs called platers.
1926 DON JUAN was the first sound-on-disc movie released by the Vitaphone corporation. The Vitaphone corporation had been formed by the Warner Bros. and Western Electric companies. Synchronizing the sound and film still proved difficult.
1932 A much improved method of cutting the grooves into records was invented by Bell Labs.
1941 Recording of sound was used to break secret codes, record telephone messages from spies, and record intercepted enemy communications during World War II. Wire recorders were used because they were much more durable. This increased interest to improve wire recorders.
1953 Prerecorded stereo magnetic tapes were now available. Stereo tape recordings were the first stereo sound used in the home.
1964 The first tape cassette player available in the U.S. was a portable model made by the Norelco Company, the Carry Corder.
1971 The new Ray Dolby system now greatly reduced unwanted background sound on the cassette tape
1977 Record companies now offered their prerecorded music on both cassette tape and disc.
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.
1982 The commercial sale of the new standard CD was introduced.
1983 Fiber-optic cable is used for long-distance digital audio transmission, linking New York and Washington, D.C.
1984 Dolby introduces the "SR" Spectral Recording system.
1990 ISDN telephone links are offered for high-end studio use.
1991 Ampex introduces 499 mastering tape.
1992 The Philips DCC and Sony's MiniDisc, using digital audio data-reduction, are offered to consumers as record/play hardware and software.
1993 In the first extensive use of "distance recording" via ISDN, producer Phil Ramone records the "Duets" album with Frank Sinatra.
1994 Yamaha unveils the ProMix 01, the first "affordable" digital multitrack console
1995 The first "solid-state" audio recorder, the Nagra ARES-C, is introduced. It is a battery-operated field unit recording on PCMCIA cards using MPEG-2 audio compression.
1996 Record labels begin to add multimedia files to new releases, calling them "enhanced CDs."
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