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By Samuel Abhulimen. History of audio. The phonograph was born by Thomas Edison. By working in his lab he succeeds in recovering Mary’s Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a cylinder. 1877. The first music was put on record was “Yankee Doodle”. 1878.
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By Samuel Abhulimen History of audio
The phonograph was born by Thomas Edison. By working in his lab he succeeds in recovering Mary’s Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a cylinder 1877
Clement Ader used carbon microphones and armature headphones. He accidently produced a stereo effect when people listened outside the hall monitor adjacent telephones line linked to stage mikes at Paris Opera 1881
Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flat- disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies practical. 1887
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. 1895
Valedmar Poulsen patents his “Telegraphone” recording magnetically on steel wire. 1898
Poulsen shows his invention to the people at the Paris Exposition. Austria’s Emperor Josef congratulates him on his invention. 1900
The Victor Talking machine Company is founded by Emilie Berliner and Eldridge Johnson. 1901
Lee Defrost invents the triode vacuum tube. The first electronic signal amplifier. 1906
Enrico Caruso is heard in the first live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, NYC. 1910
Major Edwin F. Armstrong is issued a patent for a regenerative circuit, making radio reception practical. 1912
The first "talking movie" is demonstrated by Edison using his Kinetophone process, a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector. 1913
A patent for the superheterodyne circuit is issued to Armstrong. 1916
The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is founded. It is owned in part by United Fruit. 1919
The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA, Pittsburgh PA. 1921
Bell Labs develops a moving armature lateral cutting system for electrical recording on disk 1925
"The Jazz Singer" is released as the first commercial talking picture, using Vitaphone sound on disks synchronized with film. 1927