THE HISTORY OF AUDIO TIMELINE

By: Kaitlyn Barth

19TH CENTURY Inventors created “mechanical

instruments” that played pre-recorded music. They included hydro-powered organs, automatic flutes, and a player piano.

1800S Audio Engineering began during the

1800s.

1860 Scottish physicist, James Clerk Maxwell

predicted the existence of radio waves.

1866 Mahlon Loomis, a dentist successfully

demonstrated “wireless telegraphy” by making a meter connected to one kite make another one move, marking the first wireless aerial communication.

1877 Thomas Alva Edison was the first to use

recording technology and audio engineering by recording “Mary’s Little Lamb”.

1878 The first music was put on record in

1878.

1887 Emile Berliner was granted a patent on

a flat disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies.

1889 Emily Berliner built on the cylinder

phonograph with her disk phonograph that became popular throughout the world.

1898 Valdemear Poulsen makes his

“telegraphone” by recording magnetically on a steel wire.

1906 Lee Deforest invents the vacuum tube

which was the first electronic signal amplifier.

1925 Electrical audio engineering changed

the recording process by introducing the microphone.

1927 The film “The Jazz Singer” was the first

movie to use photo cells to record music right into the movie.

1927 The Columbia Broadcasting System is

formed. This is also known as (CBS).

1940S Multitrack engineering was developed to

record simultaneous tracks onto a recording medium.

The Ampex company began to sell personal tape recorders.

1940 The Disney film “Fantasia” was the first

movie to use stereo sound.

1956 The movie “Forbidden Planet” is

released with an all electronic film score, composed by Louis and Bebe Barron.

1970 Digital recording was created and

became the preferred method of recording in the 1990s

1981 Phillips demonstrates the compact disc

or the CD.

1982 The compact disc and other recording

technology was invented which has become a popular audio recording and made the development of Mp3 technology.

1984 The Apple Corporation releases the

Macintosh Computer.

1985 Dolby introduces the Spectral Recording

System.

1996 The DVD disc was released and

invented.

1998 Mp3 Players appeared for downloaded

internet audio.

1999 Audio DVD Standard was agreed by

manufactures.

2004 Dual Disc makes their double sided DVD

with on side being the CD and the other side being the DVD.

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