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Evolution of audio . By Payton Crouch. 1877. Thomas Edison achieved to record “Mary's Little Lamb” on tin foil. . 1878. The first song was recorded. “Yankee Doodle”. 1887. Emile Berliner is granted a patent for a gramophone that makes multiple copies practical. 1888.
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Evolution of audio By Payton Crouch
1877 • Thomas Edison achieved to record “Mary's Little Lamb” on tin foil.
1878 • The first song was recorded. “Yankee Doodle”
1887 • Emile Berliner is granted a patent for a gramophone that makes multiple copies practical.
1888 • Edison invents an electric motor phonograph.
1895 • Marconi experiments with his wireless telegraphy system in Italy, leading to the first transatlantic signals from Poldhu.
1898 • ValdemarPoulsen patents his "Telegraphone," recording magnetically on steel wire.
1900 • At the Paris Exposition Poulsen unveils his invention to the public.
1901 • Victor Talking Machine Company is founded by Emile Berliner and Eldridge Johnson. • Optical recordings are made on a experimental motion picture film.
1906 • Lee DeForest invents the first electronic signal amplifier, the triode vacuum tube.
1910 • Enrico Caruso is heard in the first live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, NYC.
1912 • Major Edwin F. Armstrong becomes a patent for a regenerative circuit, making radio reception posible.
1913 • The first movie with sound is demonstrated by Edison using his Kinetophone process.
1916 • The Society of Motion Picture Engineers is formed. • Edison does live-versus-recording demonstrations in Carnegie Hall, NYC.
1919 • The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is founded.
1921 • The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA, in Pittsburgh PA.
1933 • Magnetic recording on steel wire is developed. • Snow, Fletcher, and Steinberg at Bell Labs transmit the first inter-city stereo audio program.
1936 • BASF makes the first tape recording of a symphony concert, that Sir Thomas Beecham conducts Mozart. • Von Braunmühl and Weber apply for a patent on a cardioid condenser microphone.
1940 • Walt Disney eight-track stereophonic soundof "Fantasia" is released.
1944 • Alexander Poniatoffforms Ampex Corporation to make electric motors for the military.