How Music Has Progressed

Record player or phonograph

Jan 1, 1877

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Edison's records were made from tin foil, but his later method known as "Hill and Dale" recording .Early turntables were operated by a spring driven moter that required rewinding for each record played.

music with moving picture

Jan 1, 1895

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The oldest known film with music was made for the kinetophone developed by Thomas Edison that showed moving pictures with a fitted phonograph. In the film the inventor plays music from a popular operettaon a violin as 2 men dance beside him.

Radio

Jan 1, 1922

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The first ship-to-shore 2 way call radiowas in1922 . It was 400 miles at sea. It was not till 1929 that high seas public radio/ telephone service inaugurated.

Music at the movies

Apr 1, 1923

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In April 1923 , New York City's Rivoli Theater presented the first motion pictures with sound on film , system that synchronized movies and their sound.(The Jazz Singer,"the first full-length talkie in history would premiere in1927 and use the same technology.)

CDs

Jan 1, 1965

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James T. Russell, a senior scientist at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, invented the technology for the compact disc in 1965. By 1985, Russell had earned 26 patents for various innovations with CD-ROM technology.

CD player

Oct 1, 1965

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James T. Russell conceived the compact disc player ( CD player) in 1965. While he worked at the Pacific Northwest National Labratoryof the Battelle Memorial Institute of Richland.

Audio Cassette

Jan 1, 1967

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An audio tape recording mounted into a cassette. They are a format for recording and playingaudio. They consist of a reel to reel tape of of magnetic information.

portable MP3 player

Jan 1, 1998

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It was designed in the early 1990's and first appeared on the market in1998. The first players had a minimal storage capacity, but throughout the 2000's flashed drive memory was replaced with hard drives in portable mp3 players.

iPod

Oct 23, 2001

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Apple computers announced their portable music player, the iPod, on Oct. 23,2001. The iPod was announced several months after the release of iTunes.

iTunes

Apr 28, 2003

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It was apple's idea of a simple virtual music store . Initially, the store only had 200,000 tracks and only Mac users were able to buy and transfer music to their iPod.