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Technology Over Time

By rajeshab23

  • Phonograph Was invented

    Phonograph Was invented
    The Phonograph made the first recording of a human voice.

  • The Gramophone was invented

    The Gramophone was invented
    On November 8 1887, Emile Berliner, a German immigrant working in Washington D.C., patented a successful system of sound recording called the Gramophone. Berliner was the first inventor to stop recording on cylinders and start recording on flat disks or records.

  • Victor Talking Machine Company was invented

    Victor Talking Machine Company was invented

  • Era of the 78 RPM disc standard is born

    Era of the 78 RPM disc standard is born
    Vicotor Talking Machine Company's 1905 Victrola became the industry’s premiere disc phonograph, and the era of the 78 RPM disc standard was born (Holmes 2006).

  • Magnetophon came out

    Magnetophon came out
    The Magnetophon came out decades before the Compact casette came out. It was released by AEG.

  • Compact Casettes came out

    Compact Casettes came out
    The Compact Cassette, also called audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel tape recording in most non-professional applications.

  • The Walkman portable audio cassette player came out

    The Walkman portable audio cassette player came out
    Walkman is a Sony brand tradename originally used for portable audio cassette players, and now used to market Sony's portable audio and video players as well as a line of former Sony Ericsson mobile phones. The original Walkman introduced a change in music listening habits by allowing people to carry music with them and listen to music through lightweight headphones.

  • The Ipod came out

    The Ipod came out
    The iPod is a line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first line was released on November 10, 2001; its most recent redesigns were announced on September 12, 2012. There are four current generations of the iPod: the ultra-compact iPod shuffle, the compact iPod nano, the touchscreen iPod touch, and the hard drive-based iPod classic. Like other digital music players, iPods can serve as external data storage devices. Storage capacity varies by model, ranging from 2 GB