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Record Player
Sound waves were directed into the diaphragm, making it vibrate. A hand crank turned the cylinder to rotate the tinfoil cylinder while the needle cut a groove into it to record the sound vibrations from the diaphragm. The output side of the machine played the sound through a needle and an amplifier. -
Radio
This machine was a way that music was played through satellites. -
Headphones
People use a cord to hook up to their phone in order to play music from their phone. -
Cassette Player
These devices' purpose is to transport magnetic tapes. The tapes are inserted into a recorder. -
Boombox
A boombox is a device typically capable of receiving radio stations and playing recorded music. -
Walkman
This device was a portable cassette player that allowed people to listen to music. -
CD Player
People could download music from their computer onto a CD or buy CDs from the store, and then they could put it in a CD player to listen to their music. -
MP3 Player
This was a device, like the iPod which is more advances, and you could download music from your computer to listen to through headphones. -
Bluetooth
People can connect their phones to devices like speakers and their cars to listen to their music. -
Phone
People could download apps on their smart phones to listen to music, like youtube, pandora, spotify. -
iPod
People could buy the apple product that allowed you to play music. -
Aux Cord
People could hook up their phones using a cord connecting to another device, like their car, in order to play music. -
Air Pods
Headphones became wireless in order to listen to music without having to connect a cord to your phone.
