audio timeline

By anthony,log

  • frist audio

    Thomas Alva Edison, working in his lab, succeeds in recovering Mary's Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder

  • the frist record

    The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee Doodle."

  • flat disc

    Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flatdisc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies practical

  • the frist talking movie

    The first talking movie is demonstrated by Edison using his Kinetophone process a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector.

  • AM radio

    The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA Pittsburgh PA.

  • recording on steel

    Magnetic recording on steel wire is developed commercially

  • the first transistor radio

    The Transistor Radio the first practical transistor that made any significant profits was the Regency TR-1

  • the first 16-bit

    Dr. Stockham of Soundstream makes the first 16-bit digital recording in the U.S. at the Santa Fe Opera

  • the frirst CD player

    Sony releases the first CD player, the Model CDP-101.

  • Apple

    Apple released their very first mp3 player on October 23, 2001