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  Thomas Edison’s tinfoil cylinder phonograph, which made the first recording of the human voice
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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
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  3M introduced a “plastic-based recording tape with a magnetic oxide coating”
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  Phillips introduced the audio cassette tape format that eventually became popular among home audio enthusiasts
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  Sony developed the first digital audio recording devices to be used by professional studios.
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  Apple
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