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English physicist Robert Hooke experiments with an approach to amplification other than air with a stretched wire with a cup at each end.
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Antonio Meucci invented the first telephone, which later allowed the general public access to a Microphone and speaker.
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Emile Berliner Created the first Modern Microphone.
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Edison invents the cylinder Phonograph used to record and playback sound.
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Emile Berliner invents the Gramophone, the first flat record player.
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Danish inventor Valdemar Poulson invents Magnetic Wire Sound Recording.
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Guglielmo Marconi invented Radio Communication and proved it's feasibility by sending and receiving his first message.
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Eldredge Johnson perfects the first system of mass production of pre-recorded flat disks, otherwise known as Vinyl.
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Charles Herrold starts up his own radio station named The Herrold Station located from his Wireless Telegraph College in San Jose, California; Broadcasting voice and music from California to San Jose.
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The first OKeh Records studio in New York is set up by Otto KE Heinemann.
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Alan Turing proposed the first principal of the modern computer in his seminal 1936 paper on computable numbers.
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Les Paul demonstrated live looping for the first time on the television show Omnibus.
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The RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer Mark I was the first synthesizer, it used tuning forks and information on a roll of paper tape to play music through a pair of loudspeakers.
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The Beatles record their eleventh studio album "Abbey Road" at now world famous Abbey Road Studios, titling their album after the studio and giving it its renowned fame.
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Graeme Edge, drummer of The Moody Blues, creates the first electronic drum-kit in collaboration with Sussex University Professor Brian Groves.
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Soundstream creates the first DAW, called the Digital Editing System.
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The Roland Jupiter-6 and the Prophet 600 take their first breaths they lead the way to the future of MIDI.
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Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon release the online streaming platform Spotify.
