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The first device capable of recording sound signals was Léon Scott de Martinville’s 1857 invention called the “phonautograph.”
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Thomas Edison’s tinfoil cylinder phonograph made the first recording of the human voice in 1877.
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Berliner’s gramophone became especially marketable through the invention of the spring motor record player, as first used by Eldridge Johnson in a hand-cranked motorized gramophone for Berliner in 1896.
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Their 1905 Victrola became the industry’s premiere disc phonograph, and the era of the 78 RPM disc standard was born (Holmes 2006).
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By the 1920s, innovation in electrical recording and amplification systems combined with the advent of magnetic recording to help drive the recording industry for the next two centuries
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In the 1940s, Columbia introduced the 33-1/3 RPM long-playing record (LP) at about the same time the Decca Record Company helped usher in the era of high fidelity with full frequency range recordings.
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In 1963, Phillips introduced the audio cassette tape format that eventually became popular among home audio enthusiasts.
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he MP3 format (which had been in development since 1987) would launch the digital audio player revolution that achieved meteoric success with the introduction of Apple’s iPod in 2001 (Holmes 2006).
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digital mediums such as compact discs (1988) and minidiscs (1992).
