audio

By alexa reynoso

  • phonautograph

    the first device capable of recording sound signals was Léon Scott de Martinville’s 1857 invention called the “phonautograph.”

  • phonograph

    Preceding Berliner’s 1887 invention, however, was Thomas Edison’s tinfoil cylinder phonograph, which made the first recording of the human voice in 1877.

  • cylinder and disc machines

    By 1891, however, Edison expanded into the entertainment field. For the next several years, material innovation improved both cylinder and disc machines

  • hand-cranked motorized gramophone

    Berliner’s gramophone became especially marketable through the invention of the spring motor record player, as first used by Eldridge Johnson in a hand-cranked motorized gramophone for Berliner in 1896.

  • victor talking machine company

    Berliner and Johnson eventually joined interests to form the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901.

  • disc phonograph

    Their 1905 Victrola became the industry’s premiere disc phonograph, and the era of the 78 RPM disc standard was born

  • recording devices

    Sony developed the first digital audio recording devices to be used by professional studios in 1978.

  • file sharing

    File sharing is extremely controversial, and it led to the restructuring of such notorious Internet file-sharing organizations as Napster, which was launched in 1999 and enjoyed immense success before being shut down for copyright infringement.