Audio Timeline
Jacoya Ellis
Audio Timeline
Jacoya Ellis
1877
• Thomas Alva Edison, working in
his lab, succeeds in recovering
Mary's Little Lamb from a strip of
tinfoil wrapped around a spinning
cylinder.
• He demonstrates his invention in
the offices of Scientific American,
and the phonograph is born.
1878
• The first music is put on record:
cornetist Jules Levy plays "Yankee
Doodle."
1881
• Clement Ader, using carbon
microphones and armature
headphones, accidentally produces
a stereo effect when listeners
outside the hall monitor adjacent
telephone lines linked to stage
mikes at the Paris Opera
1887
• Emile Berliner is granted a patent
on a flat-disc gramophone, making
the production of multiple copies
practical
1888
• Edison introduces an electric
motor-driven phonograph
1895
• Marconi successfully experiments
with his wireless telegraphy system
in Italy, leading to the first
transatlantic signals from Poldhu,
Cornwall, UK to St. John's,
Newfoundland in 1901.
1898
• Valdemar Poulsen patents his
"Telegraphone," recording
magnetically on steel wire
1900
• Poulsen unveils his invention to
the public at the Paris Exposition.
Austria's Emperor Franz Josef
records his congratulations.
• Boston's Symphony Hall opens
with the benefit of Wallace
Clement Sabine's acoustical advice
1901
• The Victor Talking Machine
Company is founded by Emile
Berliner and Eldridge Johnson.
• Experimental optical recordings
are made on motion picture film.
1906
• Lee DeForest invents the triode
vacuum tube, the first electronic
signal amplifier
1910
• Enrico Caruso is heard in the first
live broadcast from the
Metropolitan Opera, NYC
1912
• Major Edwin F. Armstrong is
issued a patent for a regenerative
circuit, making radio reception
practical.
1913
• The first "talking movie" is
demonstrated by Edison using his
Kinetophone process, a cylinder
player mechanically synchronized
to a film projector.
1967
• Richard C. Heyser devises the "TDS" (Time Delay
Spectrometry) acoustical measurement scheme, which
paves the way for the revolutionary "TEF" (Time Energy
Frequency) technology.
• Altec-Lansing introduces "Acousta-Voicing," a concept of
room equalization utilizing variable multiband filters.
• Elektra releases the first electronic music recording:
Morton Subotnick's Silver Apples of the Moon.
• The Monterey International Pop Festival becomes the
first large rock music festival.
• The Broadway musical Hair opens with a high-powered
sound system.
• The first operational amplifiers are used in professional
audio equipment, notably as summing devices for
multichannel consoles.
1986
• The first digital consoles appear.
• R-DAT recorders are introduced in
Japan.
• Dr. Gunther Theile describes a
novel stereo "sphere microphone."
1998
• The Winter Olympics open with a
performance of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy,"
played and sung by synchronizing live audio
feeds from five continents with an orchestra
and conductor at the Olympic stadium in
Nagano, Japan, using satellite and ISDN
technology.
• Golden Anniversary celebration held in New
York on March 11, the exact date of the first
AES meeting in 1948, with ten of the original
members present.
• MP-3 players for downloaded Internet audio
appear.
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