Audio timeline!

1. Audio timeline! By: Mackenzie Burt. Mr. Hardin's 3rd period.

2. 1452-1519 • Leonardo DaVinci, discovered sound moves in waves.  • http://www.enotes.com/science/q-and-a/who-discovered-sound-wave-when-126763

3. 1520 • Christian Doppler later discovered that sound waves could be compressed or expanded, thereby. • http://www.enotes.com/science/q-and-a/who-discovered-sound-wave-when-126763

4. 1753 • The first horns were monotone instruments. Hampel invented the means of applying movable slides (crooks) of various length that changed the key of the horn. • http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/a/French_Horn.htm

5. 1827 • Sir. Charles Wheatstone was the first person to create the microphone. • http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microphone.htm

6. 1857 • Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinsville invented the phonautograph, the first device that could record sound waves as they passed through the air. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sound_recording#Acoustical_recording

7. 1860-1935 • The Dickson Experimental Sound flim is a film made by William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson http://benbeck.co.uk/firsts/talkies1.htm

8. 1877 • Thomas Alva Edison, was working in his lab when he succeeded in recovering Mary's Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder. • http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

9. 1878 • In 1878 was when the first recording came out. It was Yankee Doodle. It was cornetist Jules Levy. • http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

10. 1910 • Nathaniel Baldwin invented the first headphone. The first headphone was made from leather, ceramics, copper and rubber. • http://www.whenwasitinvented.org/when-was-the-first-headphone-invented/

11. 1918 • Nathaniel Baldwin was the inventor of the first earphones. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Baldwin

12. 1919-1930 • Although headphones have been around since 1919, Beyer dynamic were the first to invent the headphones for commercial use in the late 1930s. • http://answers.ask.com/Consumer_Electronics/Portable_Audio_Players/who_invented_headphones

13. 1929 • Harry Nyquist published the mathematical foundation for the sampling theorem basic to all digital audio processing

14. 1932 • The first cardioids ribbon microphone is patented by Dr. Harry F. Olson of RCA. • http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

15. 1958 • John C. Koss invented the first stereo headphones. • http://www.whenwasitinvented.org/when-was-the-first-headphone-invented/

16. 1975 • Digital tape recording begins in professional audio studios. • http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

17. 1979 • Sony introduces a palm-sized stereo cassette tape player called a "Walkman.“ • http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

18. 1982 •  The first CD player was invented by Sony and was released to the world in October of 1982 at a cost of around $900. • http://answers.ask.com/Computers/Hardware/when_was_the_first_cd_player_invented

19. 1995 •  The first DVD player known as the Digital versatile Disc was invented in the early 1990's and was announced to the public in 1995. • http://answers.ask.com/Computers/Hardware/when_was_the_first_dvd_player_invented

20. 1997 • DVD videodiscs and players are introduced. An audio version with 6-channel surround sound. • http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

21. 1998 • MP-3 players for downloaded Internet audio appear. • http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

22. 1999 • Audio DVD Standard 1.0 agreed upon by manufacturers. • http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html