A UDIO T IMELINE By: Madeline Parish. 1877 o Thomas Edison created the phonograph. o A band of tin foil was placed on a cylinder, and the cylinder had.

AUDIO TIMELINEBy: Madeline Parish

1877

o Thomas Edison created the phonograph.

o A band of tin foil was placed on a cylinder, and the cylinder had a turned hand crank.

1888

Emile Berliner created the GramophoneHe was creating this during the time Thomas

Edison was creating the Phonograph

1878

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

1878

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

1887

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

1915

The first dynamic speaker was created by Charles Pridham, Peter Jenson

Created in Napa, California

1930

Wire recorders were created by Oberlin Smith.

This was made from wires instead of tape!

1936

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

1938

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

1940

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

1940

Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released, with eight-track stereophonic sound.

1942

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

1945

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

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

1964

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

1964

Crowns first solid state amplifier,

1965

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

1965

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

The Pro 800 Series tape recorders feature a logic-controlled transport.

1979

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

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

1980

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

1982

The commercial sale of the new standard CD was introduced.

1983

Introduction of the CM311, a head-worn microphone.

1987

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

1988

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

1999

It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics

2004

Dual disc

2007

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..

CREDIT!

http://www.videointerchange.com/audio_history.htmhttp://www.audiohistory.com/index.phphttp://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

http://www.research.philips.com/technologies/projects/cd/index.html

http://www.timetoast.com/timelines/104364 http:/ /library.thinkquest.org/19537/Timeline.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_audio_formats

CREDITS!

http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/MPThree.htm

http://www.crownaudio.com/crntime.htm http://www.randomhistory.com/2008/08/04_ip

od.html