1. By: THE James Tidwell THE January 8th, 2013
THE Audio Timeline
By: THE James Tidwell
THE January 8th, 2013

2. 1877
Thomas Edison invents the phonograph when he recovers Mary Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder.

3. 1878
Yankee Doodle by Jules Levy is the first music put on record.

4. 1887
Emile Berliner patents a flat disk gramophone, which makes production of multiple copies easier.

5. 1888
Thomas Edison invents an electric motor-driven phonograph.

6. 1895
Marconi successfully uses his wireless telegraph system in Italy. Which leads to the first signals across the Atlantic from Poldhu, Cornwall, UK to St. John's, Newfoundland in 1901.

7. 1898
Valdemar Poulsen invents the Telegraphone, which records magnetically on steel wire.

8. 1901
Victor Talking Machine Company is founded by Emile Berliner and Eldridge Johnson.

9. 1906
Lee DeForest invents the triode vacuum tube, which is the first electronic signal amplifier.

10. 1912
Major Edwin F. Armstrong invents the regenerative circuit, which allows radio reception to be easier and practical.

11. 1913
The first talking movie is done by Thomas Edison using his Kinetophone process, a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector.

12. 1916
The Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE) is founded.

13. 1917
The Scully disk recording lathe is introduced.

14. 1921
The first am commercial radio is broadcasted in Pittsburgh PA. by KDKA.

15. 1925
The first electrically recorded 78 rpm disks appear.

16. 1926
O'Neill invents the iron oxide-coated paper tape.

17. 1927
"The Jazz Singer" is released , it is the first commercial talking picture. It uses the Vitaphone sound on disks which is synchronized with the film.

18. 1929
The "Blattnerphone" is developed for use as a magnetic recorder using steel tape.

19. 1933
Magnetic recording on steel wire is developed commercially.

20. 1938
RCA develops the first column loudspeaker array.

21. 1940
Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released, with eight- track stereophonic sound.

22. 1947
Ampex produces its first tape recorder, the Model 200.

23. 1950
IBM develops a commercial magnetic drum memory.

24. 1958
The first commercial stereo disk recordings appear.

25. 1963
Philips introduces the Compact Cassette tape format, and offers licenses worldwide.

26. 1975
Digital tape recording begins to take hold in professional audio studios.

27. 1981
Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc (CD).

28. 1984
The Apple Corporation markets the Macintosh computer.

29. 1985
Dolby introduces the "SR" Spectral Recording system.

30. 1990
The write-once CD-R becomes a commercial reality.

31. 1997
DVD videodiscs and players are introduced.

32. 1998 Hutch Tidwell’s Birthday
MP-3 players for downloaded Internet audio appear.