Audio timeline!

By: Mackenzie Burt.Mr. Hardin's 3rd period.

1452-1519• Leonardo DaVinci, discovered sound moves in

waves.

• http://www.enotes.com/science/q-and-a/who-discovered-sound-wave-when-126763

1520• Christian Doppler later discovered that sound waves

could be compressed or expanded, thereby.

• http://www.enotes.com/science/q-and-a/who-discovered-sound-wave-when-126763

1753• The first horns were monotone instruments. Hampel

invented the means of applying movable slides (crooks) of various length that changed the key of the horn.

• http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/a/French_Horn.htm

1827• Sir. Charles Wheatstone was the first person to

create the microphone.

• http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microphone.htm

1857• Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinsville invented the

phonautograph, the first device that could record sound waves as they passed through the air.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sound_recording#Acoustical_recording

1860-1935• The Dickson Experimental Sound flim is a film made

by William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson

http://benbeck.co.uk/firsts/talkies1.htm

1877• Thomas Alva Edison, was working in his lab when he

succeeded in recovering Mary's Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder.

• http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

1878• In 1878 was when the first recording came out.

It was Yankee Doodle. It was cornetist Jules Levy.

• http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

1910• Nathaniel Baldwin invented the first headphone. The first

headphone was made from leather, ceramics, copper and rubber.

• http://www.whenwasitinvented.org/when-was-the-first-headphone-invented/

1918• Nathaniel Baldwin was the inventor of the first

earphones.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Baldwin

1919-1930• Although headphones have been around since 1919, Beyer

dynamic were the first to invent the headphones for commercial use in the late 1930s.

• http://answers.ask.com/Consumer_Electronics/Portable_Audio_Players/who_invented_headphones

1929• Harry Nyquist published the mathematical

foundation for the sampling theorem basic to all digital audio processing

1932• The first cardioids ribbon microphone is patented by

Dr. Harry F. Olson of RCA.

• http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

1958• John C. Koss invented the first stereo headphones.

• http://www.whenwasitinvented.org/when-was-the-first-headphone-invented/

1975• Digital tape recording begins in professional audio

studios.

• http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

1979• Sony introduces a palm-sized stereo cassette tape

player called a "Walkman.“

• http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

1982• The first CD player was invented by Sony and was

released to the world in October of 1982 at a cost of around $900.

• http://answers.ask.com/Computers/Hardware/when_was_the_first_cd_player_invented

1995• The first DVD player known as the Digital versatile

Disc was invented in the early 1990's and was announced to the public in 1995.

• http://answers.ask.com/Computers/Hardware/when_was_the_first_dvd_player_invented

1997• DVD videodiscs and players are introduced. An

audio version with 6-channel surround sound.

• http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

1998• MP-3 players for downloaded Internet audio appear.

• http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

1999• Audio DVD Standard 1.0 agreed upon by

manufacturers.

• http://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html