EVOLUTION OF THE TURNTABLE
JAN 1857
NOV 1877
Leon Scott de Martinville’s
Phonautograph
Thomas Edison’s
phonograph
Thomas Edison invented the
tinfoil cylinder phonograph, which
made the first recording of the
human voice.
The “phonautograph” was the
first device capable of recording
sound signals.
JAN 1896
NOV 1887
Using The Gramophone
Gramophone
A guy by the name of Emile
Berliner adapted Martinville’s idea
into a disc music player he called
the “gramophone.”
Eldridge Johnson is the first to use the
spring motor record player in a handcranked motorised gramophone for
Berliner in 1896.
1906
Vinyl Records
Vinyl records, were a huge uproar in the early 19th century. Records were
designed first for the gramophone. The record was a disk, about twice the size
of a regular CD, and it would be placed on top of the gramophone, then a needle
would be placed on top of the record. By turning the crank handle on the side
of the gramophone, the needle would move across the disk and make sound
vibrations, that were amplified through the gramophones speaker.
OCT 1930
The Turntable
Invented by Daniel Leland Cooley. The turntable, was not much of a hit when it
was invented, but it sky rocketed in the 1970s. People called “Disk Jockeys”,
or what we call “DJs”, used the turntables to play multiple songs at parties,
concerts, and more. The turntable also invented a technique DJ’s used called
scratching, when you move the vinyl disk back and forth. In the next coming
decades, the turntables became huge, and DJing was taken to a whole next level!
FEB 1949
Long Playing Record
Long playing Records, (LPs) were another type of record disk. This type of disk,
was much different than the others. The LPs’ allowed for people to listen to
artists albums all on one disk. LPs allowed artists to record them singing entire
albums of music. After recording, companies made thousands of copies of the
artists songs on a long playing record.
The world’s first direct-drive
turntable, creating a new era in
audio. This design continues to be
the basis of modern turntables.
1970
1962
Technics SP-10
Portable Stereo
Henry Kloss developed the first
portable stereo: KLH Model 11.