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Thaddeus Cahill invented the Telharmonium.
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The Mighty Wurlizter is invented and surpasses the Telharmonium.
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The Theremin is invented by Leon Theremin.
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Leon Theremin patented the Theremin.
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The Ondes Martenot is invented by Maurice Martenot. It is similar to the Theremin but allowed more control of the sound.
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The Hammond Organ is invented by Laruens Hammond and John M. Hanert.
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The Les Paul guitar is invented by Les Paul himself. It is an electric guitar.
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The first Musique Concrete piece of music was created by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry.
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Illiac Suite was composed, which was the first song to be composed by a computer.
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The Colombian Princeton Electronic Music Center was established.
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The first Moog synthesizer was developed by Robert Moog.
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The Beatles release "Tomorrow Never Knows" which was a song made from tape loops.
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The Moog company comes out with the Mini Moog designed to be more portable for shows.
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MIDI was developed by the companies Roland, Yamaha, Korg, Kawai to become the indusrty standard for electronic musical devices and computers to communicate.
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The first Laptop Orchestra is founded by Perry Cook, Dan Trueman, Scott Smallwood, and Ge Wang at Princeton University. Their name is Plork.
