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First recording
First recorder human voice.This is the first known recording of a person.
it is of a woman singing the French folk song “Claire de la lune”.
It was recorded by a “phonautograph”, which etches waveforms onto paper. French inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville built the device, which uses a diaphragm that responds to sound to etch the lines onto paper via the soot from an oil lamp. -
Thomas Edison records "Mary had a little Lamb"
Thomas Edison records a woman singing "Mary had a little lamb"
This would be the first American recorded. -
worlds first lateral-cut record
Inventer Charles Tainter makes the worlds first record, by cutting groves on a cylinder coated in soft wax. -
Graphone is invented
Chichester Bell and Charles Tainter invent the Graphophone that use wax coated cylinders with groves to record and play back sound. -
Non-wax recording
Inventer Emile Berliner creates a non-wax recording surface on a photo-engraved lateral-cut grove surface.
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Magnetic Tape
Inventers Valdemar Poulsen and Fritz Pfleumer devlop a way to capture sound onto a thin magnetic tape. This was much smaller than the larg discs. -
Magnetic wire recording
Inventer Valdemar Poulsen created the first wire recorders. They were like the magnetic tape recorders but used a stong wire insted of paper tape. This made them reliable.
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Improved magnetic tape
Inventer Frizt Pfleumer developed a stronger magnetic tape on paper coated with iron oxide. -
Cassette Tapes
Cassette tapes were a spin-off of magnetic tape reels. Thier small size, preloaded in a cassett made them easy to use and store. They were created by scientiests at RCA Victor. -
Digital recording
James T. Russell is the inventer of the modern digital recorder.
Russell developed the concept of optical digital recording in 1965 but it would be 1973 before a working prototype was created.
Day and month are unknown.
