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Thomas Edison created the phonograph, this being the the first invention to ever playback a recorded human voice. Did not work. Fixed, next year played Mary had a little lamb
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A German immigrant named Emile Berliner came to America and became interested in playing back sounds. He patented the Gramophone in 1888. He used a flat recording disc and a stylus to play it back.
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The first jukebox was invented in 1889 by Louis Glass, helped by William S. Arnold. Originally called nickel-in-a-slot because to listen to it you had to put one nickel in
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The first kinetophone is demonstrated by Thomas Edison. Also called a 'talking movie'. the process is a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector
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The wire recorder was first introduced as an idea in 1878 by Oberlin Smith. It had a very slow rate until it was ready to be sold which was in the 1930s.
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Was more popular in Europe than it ever was in the U.S, it used a vinyl belt in a cassette which was endless in use. That was more than the other inventions could say, with those you had to replace something. It could only record two hours of sound.
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Jesus was born. Y'ALL NEED JESUS
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It used technology similiar to the Dictabelt and Soundscriber, using modulated grooves embossed on to soft vinyl. It was made at a constant linear velocity, instead of a constant rpm. That is what set apart the Audograph apart from the rest.
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Flexible vinyl records were pressed using a stylus cutting head. Corporations liked them, since the information could not be accidentally deleted. They came in two sizes; 15 minute mail chutes and 8 minute memo discs
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It was manafactured by the Dictaphone corp and originally registered from Columbia Gramophone company. They are belts of vinyl that allowed 15 minutes of recording.
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The first one was manafactured in 1948 and sold to ABC for recording delayed broadcasts. There was many different kinds of reel to reel players
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It was released in 1951, being the very first portable audio player. They claimed to be able to fit in a shirt pocket, but was way to large to fit. The battery life was terrible and it could serve as a telephone
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A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver using transistor based circuitry. They became the most popular electronic communication device in history
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This was the very first dictation machine to use magnetic cassette tapes. It was portable and weighed 2.5 pounds
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Sony and Phillips started working together in 1979 to create a new digital disc. The team leaders were Kees Immink and Toshitada Doi
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In 1984 sony developed the CD player for the new music medium, the Discman
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The MP3 is actually a software compression/de-compression, not a piece of hardware. It made everything like file transfers ten times faster than it was before
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The MiniDisc MD was marketed exclusively by Sony. It captured a very small but devoted consumer market. It played CD's, but could also plug in a USB and listen to mp3s
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The VersaCorder was made by Sangean and uses a standard audio cassette. Also capable of 1/4 recording and playback
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The iPod nano was used to replace the iPod mini. It uses flash memory for storage and has gone through six models or 'generations'
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the iPod touch is a portable media player, and wifi platform designed by Apple
