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Company founded by Emelie Berliner and Eldridge Johnson. Optical recordings that were experimental were made on a motion picture film
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Invented by Lee DeForest, it was the first electronic signal amplifier.
(http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html) -
First Live Broadcast from Metropolitan Opera, NYC: Enrico Caruso is heard
(http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.htm) -
Major Edwin F.Armstrong issued a license for a regenerative circuit which made radio reception practical.
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First AM commercial broadcast was made by KDKA in Pittsburgh PA. This date was specifically chosen because it was election day and the power of radio was more powerful than reading the newspaper.
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt20ra.html) -
The first commercial talking picture that used Vitaphone sound on disks synced with film.The Comlumbia Broadcasting System, AKA the CBS was formed. So was the JVC, aka The Japan Victor Talking Machine Co. (http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html)
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Magnetic Recording on steel wire is developed commercially. Snow, Fletcher, and Steinberg at Bell Labs transmit the first inter-city stereo audio program.
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You can control many synthesizers just by using a keyboard. Connections weren't standardized up until the development of MIDI.
(http://theinstitute.ieee.org/tech-history/technology-history/timeline-advances-in-audio) -
Digidesign released the "Sound Tools recording and editing" system. This was for the Apple Macintosh computer.
(http://theinstitute.ieee.org/tech-history/technology-history/timeline-advances-in-audio) -
James L. Flanagan was a pioneer in acoustics who provided the technical foundation for MP3 files, which was released to handle digital audio files.
(http://theinstitute.ieee.org/tech-history/technology-history/timeline-advances-in-audio) -
Digital miniatures developed and introduced by Apple Inc.. Itunes was a media player and a library.(Still is today)
(https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-plan/tools-and-resources/history/timeline/) -
People started to become more interested in the widespread adoption of AdobeFlash for streaming TV, music, etc.
(https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-plan/tools-and-resources/history/timeline/) -
VJ Starz Karaoke machine used cartridges and digitally recreated music.
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Originally intended for data storage, but numerous artists use them to distribute albums and singles.
(http://www.obsoletemedia.org/usb-audio/) -
Combines two different formats on one single-layer disc. Released by Universal Music Japan. Mastering Quality Authenticated (MQA)
(http://www.obsoletemedia.org/hi-res-cd/)
