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the first device
• the first device capable of recording sound signals was Léon Scott de Martinville’s 1857 invention called the “phonautograph.” His device could not, however, reproduce sound signals, -
first recorded voice
Thomas Edison’s tinfoil cylinder phonograph, made the first recording of the human voice in 1877 -
edisons company
• By 1878, Edison launched his Edison Speaking Phonography Company to produce recording and playback machines, which initially were intended as dictation machines for business purposes. -
Gramophone
the idea of the "phonotaugroaph" was adapted by Emile Berliner into a disc music player he called the “gramophone.” -
edisons music company expands into entertainment
• By 1891, however, Edison expanded into the entertainment field -
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music discs improve
• For the next several years, material innovation improved both cylinder and disc machines, but disc-style gramophones and phonographs eventually won out. -
motorized gramophone
• Berliner’s gramophone became especially marketable through the invention of the spring motor record player, as first used by Eldridge Johnson in a hand-cranked motorized gramophone for Berliner in 1896. -
victorola
• Berliner and Johnson eventually joined interests to form the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901. Their 1905 Victrola became the industry’s premiere disc phonograph, and the era of the 78 RPM disc standard was born (Holmes 2006). -
electrical recording
• By the 1920s, innovation in electrical recording and amplification systems combined with the advent of magnetic recording to help drive the recording industry for the next two centuries. -
audio casstte tapes
1963, Phillips introduced the audio cassette tape format that eventually became popular among home audio enthusiasts. Analog cassette systems displaced the 8-track, but other systems remained popular for high fidelity applications among professionals until the advent of digital recorders. -
sony
• Sony developed the first digital audio recording devices to be used by professional studios in 1978. -
walkman
• The next year, Sony revolutionized the world of personal audio with the introduction of the Walkman portable audio cassette player, initially called the “Soundabout.” -
mp3's
, the first commercially available digital audio players in the United States using the MP3 format (which had been in development since 1987) would launch the digital audio player revolution that achieved meteoric success with the introduction of Apple’s iPod in 2001 (Holmes 2006). -
music anywhere
music is everywhere due to latest technology users do not have to download music you can download apps and go to websites
