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Léon Scott de Martinville’s 1857 invented phonautograph
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Emile Berliner invented the gramophone 1887
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Thomas Edison’s invented the first recording of the human voice in 1877
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1920s, innovation in electrical recording and amplification systems
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1940s, Columbia introduced the 33-1/3 RPM long-playing record
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1963, Phillips introduced the audio cassette tape format
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Sony developed the first digital audio recording in 1978.
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DVD videodiscs and players are introduced in 1997