A UDIO T IMELINE
By: Madeline Parish

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1877
Thomas Edison created the phonograph.
A band of tin foil was placed on a cylinder, and the cylinder had a turned hand crank.

1888
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Emile Berliner created the Gramophone
He was creating this during the time Thomas
Edison was creating the Phonograph

1878
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Oberlin Smith develops a theory of magnetic recording after a visit to Edison's lab.

1878
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The first music is put on record: cornetist Jules
Levy plays "Yankee Doodle."

1887
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Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flat-disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies practical.

1915
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The first dynamic speaker was created by
Charles Pridham, Peter Jenson
Created in Napa, California

1930
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Wire recorders were created by Oberlin
Smith.
This was made from wires instead of tape!

1936
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Karl Daniel created the Tefifion.
This gadget had a belt recorder!

1938
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Benjamin B. Bauer of Shure Bros. engineers a single microphone element to produce a cardioid pickup pattern, called the Unidyne, Model 55.

1940
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A number of court cases were won making it now possible for radio stations to play records without paying the record companies royalties.

1940
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Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released, with eighttrack stereophonic sound.

1942
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The RCA LC-1 loudspeaker is developed as a reference-standard control-room monitor.

1945
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Gray Manufacturing Company of Hartford,
Connecticut created the audograph.
The Audograph uses a set of rubber tires that press up against the vinyl disc and drives it's rotation.

1946
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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing invents
Scotch No. 100, which is a black oxide paper tape.

1964
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The first tape cassette player available in the
U.S. was a portable model made by the Norelco
Company, the Carry Corder.

1964
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Crowns first solid state amplifier,

1965
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8-trac was created in 1964 by a consortium led by
Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation

1965
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Invented by James Russell in 1965 but made popular by the company Philips in 19801st Law of Media: CD’s expanded the music industry and allowed for more songs to be on one disc(Compact
Discs (CD's))

1968
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The Pro 800 Series tape recorders feature a logiccontrolled transport.

1979
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Philips was working on a digital audio disc playback system, DAD. Working with Philips,
Sony developed an improved method of encoding digital sound. The PCM chip was also used. Their combined work led to the creation of the CD.

1979
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Patented SA2 is the worlds first power amplifier to use a built-in computer to maximize transistor performance.

1980
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Crown begins microphone manufacturing with the introduction of the PZM (Pressure Zone
Microphone) family of microphones.

1982
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The commercial sale of the new standard CD was introduced.

1983
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Introduction of the CM311, a head-worn microphone.

1987
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The inventors named on the MP3 patent are
Bernhard Grill, Karl-Heinz Brandenburg,
Thomas Sporer, Bernd Kurten, and Ernst
Eberlein.

1988
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The compact disc sold slowly. In 1988 CDs finally out sold vinyl records. The cassette tape was still the top seller.

1999
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It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips
Electronics

2004
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Dual disc

2007
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Apple entered the cellular phone market with the iPhone, integrating all the features of the iPod with the modern cell phone, including a full range of multimedia applications, Internet browsing, and touch-screen technology.

WHATEVER
 from 1877 till now audio has been getting better and better! Sooner or later we will be able to have background music to our day to day lives! But how would we do that? The world may never know..

C REDIT !
http://www.videointerchange.com/audio_history.ht
m http://www.audiohistory.com/index.php
http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timelin
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http://www.research.philips.com/technologies/projec ts/cd/index.html
http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/104364 http:/ /library.thinkquest.org/19537/Timeline.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_audio_for mats

C REDITS !
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