history of music players

history of music players

Period: Jan 1, 1850 to Oct 21, 1950

telegraphy system

Oct 22, 1901

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

symphony hall

Oct 22, 1901

Boston's Symphony Hall opens with the benefit of Wallace Clement Sabine's acoustical advice.1901

FIRST TALING MOVIE

Oct 22, 1908

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

Lee Deforest invents a triode vacuum tube

Oct 22, 1910

Lee DeForest invents the triode vacuum tube, the first electronic signal amplifier.1910

live broadcast from the matropolitan opera NYC

Oct 22, 1912

Enrico Caruso is heard in the first live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, NYC.1912

VERUS-RECORDED

Oct 22, 1917

Edison does live-versus-recorded demonstrations in Carnegie Hall, NYC.1917

bell telephone laboratories

Oct 22, 1919

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

the first commercial

Oct 22, 1925

The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA, Pittsburgh PA.1925

first microphone

Oct 22, 1926

RCA works on the development of ribbon microphones.1926

Bell Labs

Oct 22, 1932

Arthur Keller and associates at Bell Labs in New York experiment with a vertical-lateral stereo disk cutter.1932

snow fletcher

Oct 22, 2015

Snow, Fletcher, and Steinberg at Bell Labs transmit the first inter-city stereo audio program.1935