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Evolution of Audio

Evolution of Audio. By: Dakota Coffee. 1877. Thomas Alva Edison, working in his lab, succeeds in recovering Mary’s Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder. He demonstrates his invention to the offices of Scientific American, and the Phonograph is born. 1878.

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Evolution of Audio

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  1. Evolution of Audio By: Dakota Coffee

  2. 1877 • Thomas Alva Edison, working in his lab, succeeds in recovering Mary’s Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder. He demonstrates his invention to the offices of Scientific American, and the Phonograph is born.

  3. 1878 • The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays “Yankee Doodle.”

  4. 1881 • Clement Ader, using carbon microphones and armature headphones, accidentally produces a stereo effect when listeners outside the hall monitor adjacent telephone lines linked to stage mikes at the Paris Opera.

  5. 1887 • Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flat-disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies practical.

  6. 1888 • Edison introduces an electric motor-driven phonograph.

  7. 1895 • Marconi successfully experiments with his wireless telegraphy system in Italy. Leading to the first transatlantic signals from Poldhu, Cornwall, UK to St. John’s, Newfoundland in 1901.

  8. 1898 • Valdemar Poulsen patents his “telegraphone”, recording magnetically on steel wire.

  9. 1901 • The Victor Talking Machine Company is founded by Emile Berliner and Eldridge Johnson. Experimental optical recordings are made on motion picture film.

  10. 1906 • Lee DeForest invents the triode vacuum tube, the first electronic amplifier.

  11. 1912 • Major Edwin F. Armstrong is issued a patent for a regenerative circuit, making radio reception practical.

  12. 1913 • The first “talking movie” is demonstrated by Edison using his Kinetophone process, a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector.

  13. 1917 • The Scully disk recording lathe is introduced.

  14. 1921 • The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA, Pittsburgh PA.

  15. 1926 • O’Neil patents iron dioxide-coated paper tape.

  16. 1929 • The “Blattnerphone” is developed for use as a magnetic recorder using steel tape.

  17. 1933 • Magnetic recording on steel wire is developed commercially.

  18. 1936 • Von Braunmuhl and Weber apply for a patent on the cardioid condenser microphone.

  19. 1939 • Major Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio, makes the first experimental FM broadcast.

  20. 1942 • The first stereo tape recordings are made by Helmut Kruger at German Radio in Berlin.

  21. 1946 • Webster-Chicago manufactures wire recordings for the home market.

  22. 1948 • The Audio Engineering Society(AES) is formed in New York City.

  23. 1950 • IBM develops a commercial magnetic drum memory.

  24. 1953 • Ampex engineers a 4-track, 35 mm magnetic film system for 20th-Century Fox’s Christmas release of “The Robe” in CinemaScope with surround sound.

  25. 1954 • The first commercial 2-trackstereo tapes are released.

  26. 1958 • The first commercial stereo disk recordings appear.

  27. 1963 • Philips introduces the Compact Cassette tape format, and offers licenses worldwide.

  28. 1969 • Dr. Thomas Stockham begins to experiment with digital tape recording.

  29. 1975 • Digital tape recording begins to take hold in professional audio studios.

  30. 1981 • Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc (CD).

  31. 1983 • Fiber-optic cable is used for long distance digital audio transmission, linking New York and Washington, D.C.

  32. 1986 • The first digital consoles appear.

  33. 1991 • Apple debuts the “QuickTime” multimedia format.

  34. 1993 • Mackie unveils the first “affordable” 8-bus analog console.

  35. 1995 • Iomega debuts high-capacity “jazz” and “zip” drives, useful as removable storage media for hard disk recording.

  36. 1996 • Experimental digital recordings are made at 24 bits and 96 kHz.

  37. 1998 • MP-3 players for downloaded internet audio appear.

  38. 1999 • Audio DVD Standard 1.0 agreed upon by manufacturers.

  39. http://www.aes.org/aeshc/

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