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Edison invents the cylinder "phonograph" used to record and playback sound.
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Emile Berliner invents the first microphone and sells the rights to Bell Telephone.
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Emile Berliner invents the flat record player ("gramophone") using acoustic horn and licenses technology to record companies who make "70-rpm" disks.
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Louis Glass invents the modern jukebox (coin-operated phonograph) and installs it at the "Palais Royal" saloon in San Francisco where it is an immediate hit.
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Popular music becomes a serious business; Music Publishers begin renting office space on 28th street in New York City, in an area that would become known worldwide as "Tin Pan Alley."
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Charles K. Harris After The Ball The first "million-seller" song hit (sold via sheet music) was "After The Ball" by Charles K. Harris, who was both its composer and publisher.
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The Lumiere Brothers use (piano) music with a motion picture program (of short subjects) for the first time at a Dec. 28th -screening at the Grand Café in Paris
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An orchestra is used with (silent) motion pictures for the first time in April in London
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Eldredge Johnson perfects first system of mass duplication of pre-recorded flat disks.
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Released on the monarch label.
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Fleming invented the diode thermionic valve and, later, Lee de Forest the triode. Electrical recording had become a possibility.
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RCA Victor's "Victrola" model record player is introduced. It has a variable turntable speed control to accomodate the wide range of phonograph records produced at that time.
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The first double-sided phonograph records are introduced by Columbia. Soon its competitors follow suit
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Charles "Doc" Herrold and his assistant Ray Newby begin experimental "wireless" voice and music broadcasts from San Jose, California using experimental radio station call letters "FN" and "SJN".
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Charles "Doc" Herrold begins the first regular public radio broadcasting of voice and music from his "wireless telegraph college" in San Jose, California.
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Edison Co. finally introduces a disk player, now that the cylinder market is gone
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The Orig. Dixieland Jass <sic> Band (ODJB) makes the first "Jazz" recording.
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Garrard Engineering, a subsidiary of the British Crown jewellers, commenced manufacture of precision clockwork gramophone motors.
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Mons Remy of Belgium and Messieurs Dolon, Renaux and Debrabant, of France, together applied for a French patent covering constant linear speed recording. In England Noel Pemberton Billing independently developed a similar system, UK Patent 195,673/204,728. Pemberton Billing is also famous for founding the Supermarine Aircraft Company which made the Schneider Trophy Winners and the Spitfire of World War II.
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Vitaphone introduces a sound system to synchronize music and sound effects with a motion picture
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Bell Laboratories develops a 33 1/3 rpm disk system to synchronize a music track for the Warner Brothers film "Don Juan"
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RCA convinces phonograph to standardize on 78.26 rpm as the speed of all phonograph records.
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The Edison Co. ceases the manufacturing of sound recordings.
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The "binaural" phonograph system is created by Bell laboratories. The two channels were on separate grooves of a 78rpm vinyl record. A special stylus mechanism to play both channels.
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Duke Ellington: Dancers in LoveThe Duke Ellington recording of "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" starts the "swing music" dance craze.
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AEG/Telefunken exhibits the first magnetic tape recorder in Germany.
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Billboard magazine publishes its first chart of top-selling records.
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Regular FM Radio broadcasting begins in New York City.
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James Petrillo's American Federation of Musicians (AF of M) Union begins a "recording ban" from Aug., 1942 - Nov., 1944. Record companies had to pay royalties. This starts the decline of the big-band era.
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Dec 16 - Bell Laboratories assembles the world's first transistor (a "point contact" type so-called because two pointed metal contacts pressed the surface of a semiconductor.)
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Though many other cassette tapes and tape recorders were already made the first portable one was made in 1951
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First Transistor Radio sold They first started selling transistors for $49.99
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Multi-Track Tape Recorder Les Paul 8-Track Tape Recorder
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Cassestte tapes start to be sold Cassette tapes are distributed by RCA for $1 more than vinyl album.
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FM Stereo Radio Starts FM radio begins broadcasting and slowly gains popularity
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Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line -- providing coast-to-coast communications during the U.S. Civil War.
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Multitrack analog tape recording starts being used in recording studios.
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Compact stereo tape cassettes and players are developed by Phillips.
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The 8-track stereo tape cartridge is developed for automobile use by Lear
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The "Dolby-A" professional noise reduction system is used in some recording studios
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First intro of Surround Sound The concept of surround sound was made and produced but caused consumer confusion
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Video Cassette Tape Recorder Sony U-matic Proffesional Recorder made and produced
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First solid-state video recorder First solid state video recorder produced by Bell ind.
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The Video Casstette is Created, Invented by Charles B.Grinburg
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Video tape in a large cassette format introduced by both JVC and Panasonic in the year of.
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Ethernet, Local Computer Network, is created.
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Invention Of the Dolby Casette Tape, The Dolby A, C, and the short lived Dolby S were a revolution in portable music. Both were made by the Sony Company.
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Invention of the Floppy Disk Invented by Allan Shugart in 1952 first sold in 1976 by Sony.
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Ink Jet Printers First introduced in 1953 then sold in mass in 1977.
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The FCC Requires Cable TV systems Over 3,500 Cable Subscribers in 1980.
