Audio Timeline
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Audio TimelineBy: Eric Sutton
Teacher: Mr. Hardin
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1877
• Thomas Alva Edison, working in his lab, succeeds in recovering Mary's Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder.
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1878 -1887
• 1878 The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle."
• 1888 Edison introduces an electric motor-driven phonograph
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1881
• Clement Ader, using carbon microphones and armature headphones, accidentally produces a stereo effect when listeners outside the hall monitor adjacent telephone lines linked to stage mikes at the Paris Opera
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1887 -1888
• 1887 Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flat-disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies practical.
• 1888 Edison introduces an electric motor-driven phonograph.
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1895
• Marconi successfully experiments with his wireless telegraphy system in Italy, leading to the first transatlantic signals from Poldhu, Cornwall, UK to St. John's, Newfoundland in 1901.
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1898
• 1898 Valdemar Poulsen patents his "Telegraphone," recording magnetically on steel wire
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• 1900 Poulsen unveils his invention to the public at the Paris Exposition. Austria's Emperor Franz Josef records his congratulations.
• Boston's Symphony Hall opens with the benefit of Wallace Clement Sabine's acoustical advice
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1901
• The Victor Talking Machine Company is founded by Emile Berliner and Eldridge Johnson.
• Experimental optical recordings are made on motion picture film.
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• 1906 Lee DeForest invents the triode vacuum tube, the first electronic signal amplifier.
• 1910 Enrico Caruso is heard in the first live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, NYC.
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1912 -1913
• 1912 Major Edwin F. Armstrong is issued a patent for a regenerative circuit, making radio reception practical.
• The first "talking movie" is demonstrated by Edison using his Kinetophone process, a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector
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1916
• A patent for the superheterodyne circuit is issued to Armstrong.
• The Society of Motion Picture Engineers (SMPE) is formed.
• Edison does live-versus-recorded demonstrations in Carnegie Hall, NYC.
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1917
• The Scully disk recording lathe is introduced. • E. C. Wente of Bell Telephone Laboratories
publishes a paper in Physical Review describing a "uniformly sensitive instrument for the absolute measurement of sound intensity" -- the condenser microphone.
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• 1919 The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is founded. It is owned in part by United Fruit.
• 1921 The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA, Pittsburgh PA.
1919 -1921
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1925
• Bell Labs develops a moving armature lateral cutting system for electrical recording on disk. Concurrently they Introduce the Victor Orthophonic Victrola, "Credenza" model. This all-acoustic player -- with no electronics -- is considered a leap forward in phonograph design.
• The first electrically recorded 78 rpm disks appear. • RCA works on the development of ribbon
microphones.
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1926
• 1926 O'Neill patents iron oxide-coated paper tape.
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1927
• 1927 "The Jazz Singer" is released as the first commercial talking picture, using Vitaphone sound on disks synchronized with film.
• The Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) is formed.
• The Japan Victor Corporation (JVC) is formed as a subsidiary of the Victor Talking Machine Co.
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1967• Richard C. Heyser devises the "TDS" (Time Delay Spectrometry)
acoustical measurement scheme, which paves the way for the revolutionary "TEF" (Time Energy Frequency) technology.
• Altec-Lansing introduces "Acousta-Voicing," a concept of room equalization utilizing variable multiband filters.
• Elektra releases the first electronic music recording: Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon.
• The Monterey International Pop Festival becomes the first large rock music festival.
• The Broadway musical Hair opens with a high-powered sound system.
• The first operational amplifiers are used in professional audio equipment, notably as summing devices for multichannel
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1969
• 1969 Dr. Thomas Stockham begins to experiment with digital tape recording.
• Bill Hanley and Company designs and builds the sound system for the Woodstock Music Festival.
• 3M introduces Scotch 206 and 207 magnetic tape, with a s/n ratio 7 dB better than Scotch 111.
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Thanks for WatchingBy: Eric Sutton
• Credits to http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html