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1877
o Thomas Edison created the phonograph.
o A band of tin foil was placed on a cylinder, and the cylinder had a turned hand crank.
1888
Emile Berliner created the GramophoneHe was creating this during the time Thomas
Edison was creating the Phonograph
1887
Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flat-disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies practical.
1915
The first dynamic speaker was created by Charles Pridham, Peter Jenson
Created in Napa, California
1938
Benjamin B. Bauer of Shure Bros. engineers a single microphone element to produce a cardioid pickup pattern, called the Unidyne, Model 55.
1940
A number of court cases were won making it now possible for radio stations to play records without paying the record companies royalties.
1945
Gray Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut created the audograph.
The Audograph uses a set of rubber tires that press up against the vinyl disc and drives it's rotation.
1964
The first tape cassette player available in the U.S. was a portable model made by the Norelco Company, the Carry Corder.
1965
8-trac was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation
1965
Invented by James Russell in 1965 but made popular by the company Philips in 19801st Law of Media: CD’s expanded the music industry and allowed for more songs to be on one disc(Compact Discs (CD's))
1979
Philips was working on a digital audio disc playback system, DAD. Working with Philips, Sony developed an improved method of encoding digital sound. The PCM chip was also used. Their combined work led to the creation of the CD.
1979
Patented SA2 is the worlds first power amplifier to use a built-in computer to maximize transistor performance.
1980
Crown begins microphone manufacturing with the introduction of the PZM (Pressure Zone Microphone) family of microphones.
1987
The inventors named on the MP3 patent are Bernhard Grill, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg, Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, and Ernst Eberlein.
1988
The compact disc sold slowly. In 1988 CDs finally out sold vinyl records. The cassette tape was still the top seller.
1999
It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics
2007
Apple entered the cellular phone market with the iPhone, integrating all the features of the iPod with the modern cell phone, including a full range of multimedia applications, Internet browsing, and touch-screen technology.
WHATEVER
from 1877 till now audio has been getting better and better! Sooner or later we will be able to have background music to our day to day lives! But how would we do that? The world may never know..
CREDIT!
http://www.videointerchange.com/audio_history.htmhttp://www.audiohistory.com/index.phphttp://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html
http://www.research.philips.com/technologies/projects/cd/index.html
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/104364 http:/ /library.thinkquest.org/19537/Timeline.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_audio_formats
CREDITS!
http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/MPThree.htm
http://www.crownaudio.com/crntime.htm http://www.randomhistory.com/2008/08/04_ip
od.html