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The Rise of the Phonograph
Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 and thus was known for who invented the record player. This device recorded sound and also played sound. It inscribed audio to tinfoil wrapped along a cardboard cylinder for subsequent playback. Alexander Graham Bell added wax to Edison’s phonograph design in order to record waves of sound. The result was referred to as the graphophone. -
Celluloid cylinders
Commonly known simply as "records" in their era of greatest popularity (c. 1896–1915), these hollow cylindrical objects have an audio recording engraved on the outside surface, which can be reproduced when they are played on a mechanical cylinder phonograph.
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Berliner's gramophone
German inventor Emile Berliner is granted a U.S. patent for the gramophone, a machine to record sound by tracing a lateral—as opposed to the phonograph's vertical—groove of even depth, onto a cylindrical drum. Shortly thereafter, a disc replaced the cylinder. -
The first jukebox
The first jukebox is installed in the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
The roots of today's jukeboxes can be traced to the first coin-operated cylinder phonographs, like the one above, introduced in the early 1890s. When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877 he thought one of its uses would be as a voice recorder for office dictation. -
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The jukebox was sometimes the center of controversy. Parents, concerned by the popularity of swing and Jazz music, thought the machines were a bad influence on their children. -
The first effective system of radio communication
Over several years starting in 1894 the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi built the first complete, commercially successful wireless telegraphy system based on airborne Hertzian waves (radio transmission).[12] Marconi demonstrated the application of radio in military and marine communications and started a company for the development and propagation of radio communication services and equipment. -
"Radio" system
Inspired by the work of Heinrich Hertz and others, Guglielmo Marconi’s experiments with wireless signals lead him to be granted the world’s first patent for a system of wireless telegraphy. -
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First magnetic tape
The idea of recording and playing back sound by recording a magnetic signal on a conductive medium was first thought of by American Oberlin Smith in 1888, and the first practical device to do so -- using wire as the medium -- was Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen's Telegraphone, patented in 1898. -
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For the next few decades, although work was also carried out in the United States and the United Kingdom, among other places, the Germans led the efforts to improve magnetic recording. In 1928 Fritz Pfleumer developed, and in 1929 patented a magnetic recording tape using oxide bonded to a strip of paper or film. -
A reel-to-reel tape recorder
Modern tape recorders:
This was based on Fritz Pfleumer's 1928 invention of paper tape with oxide powder lacquered to it. The first practical tape recorder from AEG was the Magnetophon K1, demonstrated in Germany in 1935. Eduard Schüller of AEG built the recorders and developed a ring-shaped recording and playback head.
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Tapes were made by binding ferrite oxide to a long paper strip that was then magnetized by a tape head. Early reel-to-reel tape was made of paper and later from plastic based strip, which is much more durable. -
Fantasound
The recording for Fantasia began in April 1939 and lasted seven weeks. In the sessions, 33 microphones placed around the orchestra captured the music which was transferred onto eight optical recording machines located in the hall's basement. Several safety measures were enforced to prevent the risk of fire as the Academy was constructed of wood. -
Nagra
Nagra is a portable audio recorder and it was produced in 1951 in Switzland.
This recorder machine was firstly designed by Stefan Kudelski, a Polish inventor.
Curious fact, the word Nagra means '' will record'' in Polish, the inventors mother language.
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Recordable CDs hit the market
Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982. The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings (CD-DA) but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM). The first commercially available audio CD player, the Sony CDP-101, was released October 1982 in Japan. -
Laser turntable
A laser turntable (or optical turntable) is a phonograph that plays standard LP records (and other gramophone records) using laser beams as the pickup instead of using a stylus as in conventional turntables. -
Nagra VI
The Nagra VI is an 8-channel digital recorder. There are 6 analog inputs, 4 of which are equipped microphone and 2 mix inputs.
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