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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 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 • The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays “Yankee Doodle.”
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.
1887 • Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flat-disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies practical.
1888 • Edison introduces an electric motor-driven phonograph.
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.
1898 • Valdemar Poulsen patents his “telegraphone”, recording magnetically on steel wire.
1901 • The Victor Talking Machine Company is founded by Emile Berliner and Eldridge Johnson. Experimental optical recordings are made on motion picture film.
1906 • Lee DeForest invents the triode vacuum tube, the first electronic amplifier.
1912 • Major Edwin F. Armstrong is issued a patent for a regenerative circuit, making radio reception practical.
1913 • The first “talking movie” is demonstrated by Edison using his Kinetophone process, a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector.
1917 • The Scully disk recording lathe is introduced.
1921 • The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA, Pittsburgh PA.
1926 • O’Neil patents iron dioxide-coated paper tape.
1929 • The “Blattnerphone” is developed for use as a magnetic recorder using steel tape.
1933 • Magnetic recording on steel wire is developed commercially.
1936 • Von Braunmuhl and Weber apply for a patent on the cardioid condenser microphone.
1939 • Major Armstrong, the inventor of FM radio, makes the first experimental FM broadcast.
1942 • The first stereo tape recordings are made by Helmut Kruger at German Radio in Berlin.
1946 • Webster-Chicago manufactures wire recordings for the home market.
1948 • The Audio Engineering Society(AES) is formed in New York City.
1950 • IBM develops a commercial magnetic drum memory.
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.
1954 • The first commercial 2-trackstereo tapes are released.
1958 • The first commercial stereo disk recordings appear.
1963 • Philips introduces the Compact Cassette tape format, and offers licenses worldwide.
1969 • Dr. Thomas Stockham begins to experiment with digital tape recording.
1975 • Digital tape recording begins to take hold in professional audio studios.
1981 • Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc (CD).
1983 • Fiber-optic cable is used for long distance digital audio transmission, linking New York and Washington, D.C.
1986 • The first digital consoles appear.
1991 • Apple debuts the “QuickTime” multimedia format.
1993 • Mackie unveils the first “affordable” 8-bus analog console.
1995 • Iomega debuts high-capacity “jazz” and “zip” drives, useful as removable storage media for hard disk recording.
1996 • Experimental digital recordings are made at 24 bits and 96 kHz.
1998 • MP-3 players for downloaded internet audio appear.
1999 • Audio DVD Standard 1.0 agreed upon by manufacturers.