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Reproduced sound for the first time
Johananna Reirs who was a school teacher in Germany reproduced sound as a experiment. -
Grambell tries
Alexander Graham Bell tried to make a speaker based on Reirs work. -
Phonograph
Thomas Edison realized that paper tape movement through the machine sounded like words when played at high speed so he tested it using a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder -
Gramphone
Emilie Berliner came up with gramophone. He was the first to stop recording on cylinders and used flat discs made of glass -
Record Player
Intrduced by RCA Victor, It Had a clearer sound than the phonograph -
Phonographs fade away
Phonographs have become the thing of the past, record players poppularity was growing -
First ever Speaker was made
The first speaker were invented by General Electric and E.W. Kellogg of AT&T but was big and had the moving magnet on the inside -
Electrical Recordings
Electrical recordings (using microphones) were replacing acoustic recordings, acoustic recordings is when the musicians played into a metal horn. -
Electrodynamic loudspeaker
"The first voice radios used a horn, and very quickly the horn was replaced by the electrodynamic loudspeaker invented in Schenectady at General Electric" (History of Speakers,Steve Normandin) -
Electrostatic Loudspeaker
Arthur Janszen worked on the speaker for the military -
A better speaker
"Arthur Janszen joined forces with the KLH loudspeaker company, and together they introduced the KLH 9." (Electrostatic Loudspeaker History, Unknown/Not Stated) -
Modern Day Speaker
Speakers are now produced in various shapes in sizes, for example companies like skullcandy,bose, beats by dre, etc are amoung the most popular.
