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Thomas Edison was born in 1847 and he died in 1931. He was from USA. He invented the phonograph, because he needed to transcribe messages from the telegraph to a piece of paper tape. -
The Phonograph was invented in 1877 in America. It was invented by Thomas Edison. The Phonograph was the first machine to record sound and play it back. -
Gramophone was invented in 1888. It was invented by Emilie Berlin. The mechanism was very simillar to Edison´s phonograph except that the sounds were stored on a flat disc rather than on a cylindric drum. -
The tape recorder was invented in 1920s. A tape recorder records sound in the form of a magnetic pattern on a long piece of tape. -
The casette tapes were invented in 1960s. Smaller tape recorders meant smaller tapes were made. -
Walkmans were invented in 1979 in Japan. They were invented by engineers at the Sony Corporation. Walkmans couldn´t record sound but they were an instant sucess. -
The compact disc was invented in 1980s. It was invented by the electronics companion Phillips and Sony. Its sound is recorded digitally as a series of numbers. -
The mobile phone has been invented nowadays. Nowadays people listen to music on their computers or dowload music from the internet on to their mobile phones.