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  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 1901.1898
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  Boston's Symphony Hall opens with the benefit of Wallace Clement Sabine's acoustical advice.1901
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  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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  Lee DeForest invents the triode vacuum tube, the first electronic signal amplifier.1910
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  Enrico Caruso is heard in the first live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, NYC.1912
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  Edison does live-versus-recorded demonstrations in Carnegie Hall, NYC.1917
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  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.1919
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  The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA, Pittsburgh PA.1925
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  RCA works on the development of ribbon microphones.1926
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  Arthur Keller and associates at Bell Labs in New York experiment with a vertical-lateral stereo disk cutter.1932
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  Snow, Fletcher, and Steinberg at Bell Labs transmit the first inter-city stereo audio program.1935