| Event Date: | Event Title: | Event Description: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/01/1877 | Edison-Phonograph | Edison invents the "Phonograph". Used cylindrical wax tubes. | |
| 01/01/1877 | Emile Berliner-MIcrophone | Emile Berliner invents the first microphone and sells the design to Bell Telephone. | |
| 01/01/1887 | Emile Berliner-Gramophone | Emile Berliner invents the first flat record player called the gramophone. She licensed recording companies that made 70" records. | |
| 01/01/1889 | Valdemar Poulsen-Magnetic recording | Vlademar Poulsen invents magnetic wire recording. | |
| 01/01/1889 | Louis Glass-Modern jukebox | Louis Glass invents the modern Jukebox and instals it in the Palais Saloon. Much like jukeboxes today, Louis Glass' version was a coin operated phonograph. | |
| 01/01/1891 | THe international Copyright Aggrement | The International Copyright agreement is adopted in other countries. | |
| 01/01/1892 | Music business gets bigger | People and companies take the music industry more seriously and start renting office space for the purpose of recording. | |
| 01/01/1892 | "Ater the Ball" | The first "million seller" was "After the Ball" by Chrles K. Haris. (Composer, and publisher.) | |
| 01/01/1895 | Music in Movies | The Lumiere Brothers use a piano acompaniment with the motion picture program. | |
| 01/01/1897 | Wireless Telegraphy | Guglielmo Marconi is granted the first patent for Wireless telegraphy. | |
| 01/01/1900 | Flat disk Mass-Productiohn | Eldredge Johnson perfecrs first system of mass duplication of records. | |
| 01/01/1902 | "The Electric Theater" | Opened by Tomas L Tally in Los Angeles: First Nickelodeon. | |
| 01/01/1906 | "Victorola" | RCA Victorola model record player is introduced. It has a variable turntable. | |
| 01/01/1908 | Double sided phonograph | First double sided phonograph record introduced by columbia. | |
| 01/01/1912 | First public radio broadcast | Charles "doc" Herrold begins the first public radio broadcasting of voice and music from San Jose, California. | |
| 01/01/1912 | Columbia drops cylinders | Disk recordings overtake cylinders in the popular market. | |
| 01/01/1913 | Edison Co. disk player | Edison Co. introduces a disk player, since the cylinder market is gone. | |
| 01/01/1913 | "The Squaw Man" | Cecil B. DeMille and Jesse Lasky produce the first "feature-length" film. | |
| 07/29/1914 | Transcontinental Phonecall | From New York to San Francisco. | |
| 08/25/1921 | "Record Changer" | The first automatic record changer turntable is patented for a stack of 78's. | |
| 01/01/1925 | Device to sync music to movies | The first device that is connected by gears to the projector on a 16' turntable. An operator would have to constantly sync the music with the frame of the projector. | |
| 01/01/1926 | 33.5 RPm sync system | Bell Labs. Develops 33.5 rpm disk system to sync a music track for Warner Bros. Film "Don Juan" | |
| 01/01/1926 | Mechanical Television invented | Scotsman John Logie Baird invents mechanical television which he calls a "Televisor". | |
| 01/01/1928 | Standardized phonograph RPM | RCA convinces phonograph producers to standardize on 78.26 RPM | |
| 01/01/1928 | FIrst Music Chart of Performed Songs | Billboard magazine publishes its first music chart of performed songs. | |
| 01/01/1928 | Television demonstration | Scotsman John Logie Baird demonstrates his mechanical television. The signal is broadcasted from England to the United States. | |
| 01/01/1929 | Edison Co. Staps Audio production. | Edison Co. Stops the manufacturing of sound recordings. | |
| 01/01/1929 | Don Lee radio chain joins CBS | The Don Lee Radio broadcast chain joins CBS. The name is later changed to Mutual in 1936. | |
| 01/01/1932 | "It Don't Mean a Thaing if it Ain't Got That Swing" | The Duke Ellington recording of "It Don't Mean a Thaing if it Ain't Got That Swing" starts the "swing music" dance craze. | |
| 01/01/1935 | First magnetic tape recorder. | AEG/Telefunken shows the first magnetic tape recorder in germany. | |
| 01/01/1939 | "Pepsi Cola Hits The Spot" | Eric Siday and Ginger Johnson wrote the first radio jingle titled. "Pepsi Cola Hits The Spot" | |
| 01/01/1940 | FM Broadcasting begins | Regular FM broadcasting begins in Ney York. | |
| 01/01/1941 | ASCAP Feuds with Radio Networks | This spawns the birth of a rival U.S. performance based recording and radion industry. | |
| 08/01/1942 | Recording ban | James Petrillo's American Feeration of Musicians Union begins a recording ban to force record companies to pay royalties. This starts the decline of the Big Band era. | |
| 08/01/1946 | Magnetic recordings brought to America | Captured German magnetic tape recorders brought to the United States which are copied for commercial use. | |
| 01/01/1947 | Worlds first transistor | assembles the world's first transistor. | |
| 01/01/1948 | 33 1\3 LP | The commercial 33 1/3 LP (Long Playing) microgroove (1-mil) disc is introduced by Dr. Peter Goldmark of Columbia Records; the first LP disk is released; it is 10" Columbia record #4001 performed by classical violinist Yehudi Menuhin. | |
| 01/01/1948 | AES fouded | The Audio Engineering Society (The AES) is formed. | |
| 01/01/1949 | 45 RPM Phonograph records | RCA Victor responds to the LP by developing large-hole 45 rpm phonograph records; although the effort failed to kill LPs, RCA's 45s eventually had the unintended consequence of replacing 78s as the preferred media format for singles. | |
| 01/01/1951 | First ID jingle | The first ID jingle company to "sing-over" pre-recorded backgrounds - PAMS, Inc. is formed in Dallas, Texas by former radio studio musician Bill Meeks on August 20, 1951. | |
| 01/01/1952 | RIAA formed | - The Recording Industry Association of America (the RIAA) is formed in order to facilitate technical standardization of phonograph recording & reproduction; It invited engineers from U.S. record companies to discuss proposed standards including a pre-emphasis equalization curve that would optimize the performance of playback systems in attenuating unwanted surface noise and rumble, etc. | |
| 01/01/1953 | RIAAdefines standardizations in record companies | RCA proposes to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) that it adopt RCA's "New Orthophonic" recording characteristic as its standard to define equalization crossover points and rolloff characteristics for records. But the RIAA doesn't officially endorse this standard for 3 more years (1956), and it would take four more years (until 1957) for the last U.S. manufacturer to change their "equalization" curves to the the RIAA standard. | |
| 01/01/1953 | First recorded reel-reel tape | The first pre-recorded reel-to-reel tape (at 7 1/2 ips) is offered for sale. | |
| 01/01/1957 | Stereo disks offered for sale | Compatible Stereo disks and record players are offered for sale (33 1/3 and 45rpm.) | |
| 01/01/1960 | first solid state tv | Sony introduces the first "solid-state" TV set, using transistors instead of vacuum tubes. | |
| 01/01/1961 | FM Broadcasting begins | 1961 - FM Stereo radio broadcasting begins and FM slowly starts to gain respect | |
| 01/01/1962 | Analog tape recordings | Multitrack analog tape recording starts being used in recording studios. | |
| 01/01/1963 | Compact cassetes | Compact stereo tape cassettes and players are developed by Phillips. | |
| 01/01/1963 | First computer mouse | Douglas C. Engelbart demonstrates the first computer mouse (made of wood.) | |
| 01/01/1964 | 8-track tape | The 8-track stereo tape cartridge is developed for automobile use by Lear | |
| 01/01/1966 | Noise Reduction | The "Dolby-A" professional noise reduction system is used in some recording studios | |
| 01/01/1968 | Dolby B noise reduction | The "Dolby-B" noise reduction system is introduced for consumer reel-to-reel and cassette tape recorders | |
| 01/01/1969 | First micro processor | The first Microprocessor (computer on a chip) is introduced by Intel -- the 4004 | |
| 01/01/1969 | Internet link | The Internet begins as a link between four university labs, called ARPANET | |
| 01/01/1971 | Quadraphonic | The first consumer effort in surround sound -- 4-channel "Quadraphonic" (nicknamed "Quad") LP records were released on various record labels: Project 3 and Ovation called it "E-V Stereo-4", while Vanguard and Reprise called it "Dynaquad". Unfortunately, the lack of standardization among manufacturers of various LP's, 8-track, cassettes and reel-to-reel tape formats caused consumer confusion and doomed the effort. | |
| 01/01/1971 | First disco record on US radio | Gloria Gaynor records "Never Can Say Goodbye" -- the first disco record on US radio | |
| 01/01/1972 | first microcomputer | New Mexico calculator company MIPS introduces the first "micro-computer", the Altair, which is sold as a kit you put together. (Later MIPS founder returns to his original profession as a local physician.) | |
| 01/01/1972 | Bill Gates drops out of harvord | Bill Gates drops out of Harvard, moves to New Mexico to develop software for the new MIPS Altair "micro-computer" with Paul Allen under the name "MicroSoft." | |
| 01/01/1973 | First cell phone network | Martin Cooper of Motorola conceived the first cellular phone system, and led the 10-year process of bringing it to market. | |
| 01/01/1974 | Video cameras | The first all solid-state video cameras are introduced using Bell Labs "CCD" (charge-coupled device) instead of an Image Orthicon or Plumbicon camera tube | |
| 01/01/1975 | NBC Radio ends | NBC's weekend radio format MONITOR is cancelled after nearly 20 years -- It's final broadcast airs on Sunday, January 26th. | |
| 01/01/1975 | 4-channel noise reduction | A four-channel noise reduction system for optical sound tracks on 35mm film is introduced by Dolby labs (originally called "Dolby Stereo".) | |
| 01/01/1976 | Motion picture stabilizer | Garrett Brown invents the gyroscopic Steadicam, a motion picture camera stabilizer mount, worn by the cameraman himself, first used in the movie "Rocky." | |
| 01/01/1979 | Top 40 | The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight", is the first hip-hop record to reach Top 40 radio | |
| 01/01/1981 | MTV music | The MTV Music TV Cable Network debuts on the air at Midnight, August 1st. | |
| 01/01/1981 | First IBM personal computer | The first IBM-brand "PC" (for "Personal Computer") is released on August 12th --"Personal Computer" becomes the popular name of what used to be called a "micro-computer" system; It uses the "DOS" -- Disk Operating System -- provided byenterprenour Bill Gates who bought the rights to it from a local company in Seattle for a pittance, and resold it under his company's name -- "Microsoft" | |
| 01/01/1982 | Digital compact disc | The digital Compact Disc (CD) is introduced by a Japanese conglomerate. | |
| 01/01/1982 | First CD released | The first CD released (in Japan) is Billy Joel's "52nd Street" (October, 1982.) | |
| 01/01/1983 | Very first computer virus | In November, U.S. computing student Fred Cohen created the very first computer virus -- as a research project. | |
| 08/28/1983 | First CD titles | The first CD titles are released in the US in June (12 CBS, 15 Telarc, 30 Denon.) | |
| 01/01/1984 | Apple Macintosh | The (128K) Apple Macintosh personal computer debuts with a Graphical User Interface advertised as "the computer for the rest of us", expected sales of 50,000 the first monthat $2495, the industry (and Apple) is surprised when 75,000 orders pour in...perhaps due in part to a novel TV ad aired during the Football Superbowl game. | |
| 01/01/1984 | Stereo Television broadcast | NBC broadcasts the first television programs with stereo sound. | |
| 01/01/1985 | LP sales drop | Adoption of the CD starts taking a huge bite out of LP sales, causing them to drop 25%. | |
| 01/01/1986 | RIAA announces CD have overtaken LPs | The Recording Industry Association of America (the RIAA) announces on June 19 that CDs have overtaken LP sales in the U.S. | |
| 01/01/1990 | Digital tape recorder | Phillips introduces a digital audio tape recorder (DAT) using a digital casette | |
| 01/01/1991 | COmpressed audio in movies | The Moving Picture Experts Group MPEG-1 Audio Layer III (MP3) compressed audio file format becomes an international standard, and eventually the most popular format for distributing digital audio over the Internet. | |
| 01/01/1991 | Barcode Tracking | The "SoundScan" barcode tracking system of reporting music recording sales begins to bring accurate sales figures to record charts; Country music is now a bigger segment. | |
| 01/01/1994 | Computers outsell tv | Personal computers outsell TV sets for the first time in the United States. | |
| 01/01/1995 | Auctionweb.com | The online auction community eBay starts out as "AuctionWeb.com", programmed by General Magic engineer Pierre Omidyar who started it as a hobby project. It debuts on the Web in September 1995, and 10 years later in September, 2005 eBay will boast 157 million registered users worldwide, 75 million in the U.S. | |
| 01/01/2000 | Drop in music sales | The first year recording sales actually declined -- record industry blames online music swapping as the cause and tried to advance digital copy protection schemes. | |
| 01/01/2000 | DVD recorders | Consumer DVD recorders were introduced at the Comdex Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas priced at $1000, but by the 2001 show came down to around $500; these video recorders can hold up to 4.7 gigabytes of video and multimedia content | |
| 01/01/2000 | E-books | Digital electronic books (E-Books) become a small part of the publishing industry, and several competing companies attempt to introduce the standards for them. | |
| 01/01/2001 | NApstar Forced to filter content | Napster is forced to "filter out" content due to RIAA lawsuit; hints at fees to come other free peer-to-peer software including Gnutella are developed to take Napster's place | |
| 01/01/2001 | Faster computer chips | Intel announces a breakthrough in the speed of computer processing chips that will make computers several THOUSAND times faster; first systems expected to be sold in 2007 | |
| 01/01/2001 | DVD memory indcreased | Music DVD's are introduced which can contain 7 - 10 times the amount of music, or multimedia content to augment the usual sound recordings. | |
| 01/01/2001 | TV screens junked up | The TV screen gets more junked up by "crawls" -- banners at the bottom of the screen, and other distracting divisions of the screen in imitation of computer desktops. | |
| 08/28/2001 | DVD video outsells VHS | DVD video disk players outsell VHS video cassette recorder/players for the first time. | |
| 01/01/2002 | Televisions required to have digital recievers | The F.C.C. (U.S. Federal Communications Commision) requires all new U.S. television TV sets to include digital receivers in order to help the transition to digital transmission by February 17, 2009. | |
| 01/01/2003 | Itunes | Apple Computer introduces a downloadable music service via its iTunes music application which proved that people would pay 99-cents-per-tune to download music legally in the wake of peer-to-peer free (but illegal) file swapping | |
| Timespan Dates: | Timespan Title: | Timespan Description: | |
| 01/01/1946 to 01/02/1946 |
Magnetic tape recordings brought to america | Captured German magnetic tape recorders brought to the United States which are copied for commercial use |
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