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Thomas Edison's invention. This was the very first way of listening music and also the very first way of recording music. This would all save on wat looked like a cylinder.
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Invented Emile Berliner. This was the first system that recorded and played music on a flat disc. Had an arm that would scratch the discs to play the music.
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Valdimar Poulsen invented the wire recorder. This recorded the music onto a wire and worked similarly to the magnetic recorder.
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The record was the first sound recording that could be mass produced in 1900. They were originaly made of glass, then zinc and eventually plastic.
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Fritz Pfleumer invented this. It was primarely used for recording music. It was based on the invention of magnetic wire recording.
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LPs are albums which were known as long playin records at the time.
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Ideas and testing of this was actually developed during the 1940's by Les Paul but wasnt actually finished and published untl 1962.
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Phillips develops a compact stereo cassette tape and player. The cassette tape became the most popular form of music media for several years.
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The first CD released was Billy Joel's "52nd Street". One year later, in 1983, CDs were released in the USA.
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Apple created the ipod which was the biggest hit in music media.
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This was big because it was made so you can link you apple ipods to it and get music.
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The iPod touch was reat because instead of using a computer, you could directly surf the web and also download music right on your device.
