A UDIO T IMELINE By: Madeline Parish

1877 o Thomas Edison created the phonograph. o A band of tin foil was placed on a cylinder, and the cylinder had a turned hand crank.

1888 Emile Berliner created the Gramophone He was creating this during the time Thomas Edison was creating the Phonograph

1878 Oberlin Smith develops a theory of magnetic recording after a visit to Edison's lab.

1878 The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle."

1887 Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flat-disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies practical.

1915 The first dynamic speaker was created by Charles Pridham, Peter Jenson Created in Napa, California

1930 Wire recorders were created by Oberlin Smith. This was made from wires instead of tape!

1936 Karl Daniel created the Tefifion. This gadget had a belt recorder!

1938 Benjamin B. Bauer of Shure Bros. engineers a single microphone element to produce a cardioid pickup pattern, called the Unidyne, Model 55.

1940 A number of court cases were won making it now possible for radio stations to play records without paying the record companies royalties.

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

1942 The RCA LC-1 loudspeaker is developed as a reference-standard control-room monitor.

1945 Gray Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut created the audograph. The Audograph uses a set of rubber tires that press up against the vinyl disc and drives it's rotation.

1946 Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing invents Scotch No. 100, which is a black oxide paper tape.

1964 The first tape cassette player available in the U.S. was a portable model made by the Norelco Company, the Carry Corder.

1964 Crowns first solid state amplifier,

trac was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation Bill LearLear Jet

1965 Invented by James Russell in 1965 but made popular by the company Philips in 19801st Law of Media: CD’s expanded the music industry and allowed for more songs to be on one disc(Compact Discs (CD's))

1968 The Pro 800 Series tape recorders feature a logic- controlled transport.

1979 Philips was working on a digital audio disc playback system, DAD. Working with Philips, Sony developed an improved method of encoding digital sound. The PCM chip was also used. Their combined work led to the creation of the CD.

1979 Patented SA2 is the worlds first power amplifier to use a built-in computer to maximize transistor performance.

1980 Crown begins microphone manufacturing with the introduction of the PZM (Pressure Zone Microphone) family of microphones.

1982 The commercial sale of the new standard CD was introduced.

1983 Introduction of the CM311, a head-worn microphone.

1987 The inventors named on the MP3 patent are Bernhard Grill, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, and Ernst Eberlein.

1988 The compact disc sold slowly. In 1988 CDs finally out sold vinyl records. The cassette tape was still the top seller.

1999 It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics SonyPhilips Electronics

2004 Dual disc

2007 Apple entered the cellular phone market with the iPhone, integrating all the features of the iPod with the modern cell phone, including a full range of multimedia applications, Internet browsing, and touch-screen technology.

WHATEVER from 1877 till now audio has been getting better and better! Sooner or later we will be able to have background music to our day to day lives! But how would we do that? The world may never know..

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