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1857Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville
Édouard-Léon created the phonautograph which
records sounds using a rotating cylinder but it does
not playback audio.
It is the first known device to record sound.
1877
Thomas Edison
Thomas created the first hand-cranked
Phonograph. It is demonstrated in the scientific
American magazine.
1887Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander created the graphophone which
included a floating stylus that produced clearer
sound and used wax cylinders.
1892
Emile Berliner
Emile patents the first gramophone disc records
these eventually made cylinders obsolete,
1895
Thomas Edison
Edison amplifies the sound of the phonograph
by adding a horn and begins mass production.
1901
Victor Talking Machine Company
The Victor Talking Machine Company
is founded and it becomes America's
leading producer of records and
phonographs.
1906Reginald Fessenden
Reginald Fessenden; an American engineer
is the first person to play music over the
Airwaves.
1931
Alan Dower Blumlein
Alan Dower invents stereophonic sound for
recording he was an EMI researcher for the
British music recording and publishing company.
1939
Magnetic tape was invented.It is used for magnetic recording and is made of a thin magnetic coating which is on a strip of plastic film.
1972
The revolutionary direct drive turntable was created by Matsushita Technics it was called Technics SL- 1200.It was a hi-fi turntable.
1978
The 2nd generation SL-1200 MKII turntable was created by technics.It has slider pitch control for beat matching.
1981
Scratching's first vinyl was used on the album - the adventures of grandmaster flash on the wheels of steel.
2004
The digital turntable was invented it can play CDs and MP3s from a SD .Panasonic released the technics SL-DZ1200 digital turntable.
2005
Serato created software that allows analogue turntables to be able to play audio files via special timecode records.This software was called scratch live.