-
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invents the Phonautograph in Paris
Frenchman Leon Scott de Martinville invented a device for recording sound. He called it the Phonautograph and patented it on March 25, 1857. It did what it said on the tin and recorded sound, tracing the shape of sound waves as undulations or other deviations in a line traced on smoke-blackened paper or glass. What it didn’t do was play sound back which may be why history is relatively silent about the Phonautograph -
Thomas Edison Invents phoneograph
In 1887, Thomas found a way to record sound by using two needles on tinfoil cylinders. One needle for recording and the other for playback. This was the creation of the phonograph. The first words recorded were "Mary had a little 'lamb'" -
Emile Berliner changes the game by inventing the gramophone
Emile Berliner was an early developer and inventor of audio technology including the Gramophone (sound recorder). He was the first inventor to stop recording on cylinders and start recording on flat disks. The first piece that was recorded was "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". He had also invented a method of mass producing copies of an original record -
William Barry Owen and Trevor Lloyd Williams register the Gramophone Company in London.
William Barry Owen and Trevor Lloyd Williams registered the small, private Gramophone Company. -
Magnetic recording is demonstrated in principle by Valdemar Poulsen in his Telegraphon
Poulsen obtained a Telegraphone Patent in 1898, and later developed other magnetic recorders that recorded on steel wire, tape, or disks. None of these devices had electronic amplification, but the recorded signal was strong enough to be heard through a headset or transmitted on telephone wires. -
First electrical recordings are made by scientists at the Bell Laboratories in the United States
The first electrical recording issued to the public was of November 11, 1920 funeral services for the Unknown Soldier in Westminster Abbey, London. The microphones used were like those in contemporary telephones. They were inconspicuously set up in the abbey and connected by wires to recording equipment in a vehicle outside. -
The first electrical recordings was issued
Victor and Colombia in the US, issued the first electrical recordings. -
Record companies adapted sound to films
Many major film producers now used sounds on film. -
Lacquer coated discs are introduced
he introduction of lacquer-coated blank discs made instantaneous recording possible for broadcast and home recording. Very soon all the major networks began recording their programs on 16” lacquer-coated aluminium discs that could hold up to 15 minutes of audio recording on a side. Using lacquer coated discs was used well into the 1970’s when it was replaced by magnetic tape recording. -
Multi track recording developed
The guitarist, composer and technician Les Paul experimented with multi track recordings and his experiments lead to the development of 4 and 8 track recordings. These were later adopted by all the major studio’s in the 60’s with many of the Beatle’s and Rolling Stone’s Albums being the first to have 4 track records. -
All the major American labels introduce Vinyl records
Vinyl records are now being introduced -
Phillips develops the cassette tap
Their compact audio cassette was the first to combine to convenience of a tape recording format that did not require manual threading. It took about a decade before cassettes began to dominate the consumer market. -
Tape cassette player
The first tape cassette player available in the U.S. was a portable model made by the Norelco Company, the Carry Corder. -
Invention of the CD
Sony and Philips get credit for developing the compact disc in 1981, But James Russell developed it in 1965, 20 years earlier in the Tri-Cities. The CD gained popularity only after Philips started manufacturing it in 1980 on a commercial basis. -
Voicemail Invented
ordon Matthews had invented the voicemail.
Quoting "When I call a business, I like to talk to a human" -
MPEG
Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) was made as a subcommittee of the International Standards Organization/International Electrotechnical Commission or ISO/IEC. -
MP3 Invented
Fraunhofer received a German patent for the creation of MP3's -
First Ipod was released
The very first Ipod classic was released by Apple with the capacity of 5, 10 GBs and the battery life of 10 hours.
