1. HISTORY OF SOUND TECHNOLOGY
Acoustic Era 1877 – 1925

2. The 1st Recording
Dec. 6, 1877: Thomas Edison is the first to record sound: Mary Had A Little Lamb.

3. Early Phonograph
Mechanical sound reproduction.

4. Alexander Graham Bell Mid 1880s
Develops the graphophone

5. Emile Berliner 1887 Patents the gramophone -
precursor to vinyl records

6. Late 1880s
Dickinson develops the kinetograph

7. Silent Film Era

8. Tube Technology
Lee De Forest invents the vacuum tube (1906)

9. The Electronic Era

10. Don Juan 1926
First film to include music on an amplified sound track.

11. Sound on Film May, 1927
Fox produces newsreels known as Movietone News, which is shown prior to feature films in theaters.

12. 1928 Neumann Microphones

13. Stereophonic Recording & Advances in Film Sound
1933: King Kong was released by RKO and made film sound history.

14. Stereophonic recordings
Leopold Stokowski and Alan Blumlein were two pioneers in the field of stereo recording.

15. The First Magnetic Tape Recording:1935

16. 1940 Walt Disney’s Fantasia

17. Hi Fi Era 1948

18. 1948 Birth of the LP

19. 1949 The “single” is born
RCA develops the 7” 45 RPM single.

20. 1951 The portable tape recorder
Stefan Kudelski builds the first Nagra portable field tape recorder.

21. 1952 Widescreen Film formats
Film industry develops wide formats to compete against the new TV industry.

22. 1953 Cinemascope
The Robe debuted as the first Cinemascope film.

23. 1953 Sun Studios
Considered the “Mecca” of modern rock recording.

24. Early Digital Technology
1957: The first computer generated sound

25. Modern Synthesizers
1966: Robert Moog releases first production model of the Moog synthesizer
1975: The synclavier, developed by composer Jon Appleton and engineers Sydney Alonso & Cameron Jones

26. 1965 Dolby Type-A
Adopted by film industry in early to mid 70’s to make movies sound better.

27. 1976 Dolby Stereo
A star is Born is the first Dolby stereo movie.

28. The Digital Era ???
1982: The first Compact Audio Discs (CDs) are marketed by Sony.

29. 1983 Return of the Jedi
Introduces THX: A standard developed by George Lucas for theater sound systems.

30. 1986 Dolby SR
Dolby’s 2nd generation professional recording system (for analog recordings).

31. 1987 Rise of the DAT
The 1st Digital Audio Tape players are introduced.

32. 1992 Dolby Digital
Batman Returns is the 1st movie in Dolby Digital

33. 1993 SDDS
Last Action Hero is the 1st film released in this new format (Sony Dynamic Digital Sound).

34. Mid 90’s - Present DAW’s
Digital Audio Workstations slowly overtake analog to become the new industry standard for recording and editing.