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Audio Timeline. By Leighton Weber. 1878. The first music was put on a record. The song was Y ankee D oodle. The artist was Jules Levy. 1881. The stereo effect were accidentally created. Clement Ader did this.
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Audio Timeline By Leighton Weber
1878 • The first music was put on a record. • The song was Yankee Doodle. • The artist was Jules Levy.
1881 • The stereo effect were accidentally created. • Clement Ader did this. • He was using carbon microphones and armature headphones and other people liked the stereo effect.
1888 • Edison introduced an electronic, motor driven phonograph.
1895 • Marconi experimented his wireless telegraphy system in Italy and it was a success.
1898 • The telegraph recorded magnetically on steel wire.
1901 • The Victor Talking Machine Company was founded by Emile Berliner and Eldridge Johnson. • Experimental recordings were made on motion picture films.
1906 • Lee DeForest invented the triode vacuum tube. • A triode vacuum tube was the first electronic signal amplifier.
1910 • Enrico Caruso was heard through the first live broadcast. • Metropolitan Opera, New York City.
1912 • Major Edwin F. Armstrong was issued a patent for a regenerative circuit. • This made radio reception practical.
1913 • The first “talking movie” was demonstrated by Edison. • He demonstrated it by using his Kinetophone process, a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector.
1917 • The Scully disk recording lathe was introduced.
1919 • The Radio Corporation of America, or the RCA, was founded.
1929 • The “Nyquist Theorem” was published by Harry Nyquist. • The Nyquist Theorem is the mathematical foundation for the sampling theorem basic to all digital audio processing.
1932 • The first cardioid ribbon microphone was patented by Dr. Harry F. Olsen of RCA. • It used a field coil instead of permanent magnet.
1933 • Snow, Fletcher, and Steinberg at Bell Labs transmited the first inter- city stereo audio program.
1935 • AEG, in Germany, exhibited its “Magnetophon” Model K-1 at the Berlin Radio Exposition.
1936 • BASF made the first recording of a symphony concert.
1939 • Western Electrics designed the first motional feedback, vertical- cut disk recording head.
1941 • Commercial FM broadcasting began in the U.S.
Later in 1941 • Arthur Haddy devised the first motional feedback, lateral- cut disk recording head. • This was later used to cut his “ffrr” high- fidelity recordings.
1942 • The RCA LC-1 loudspeaker was developed as a reference- standard control- room monitor.
1947 • Ampex produced its first tape recorder, the Model 200.
1948 • The Audio Engineering Society was formed in New York.
1949 • RCA introduced the microgroove 45 rpm, large- hole, 7 inch record and record changer/ adaptor.
1954 • RCA introduces its polydirectional ribbon microphone, the 77DX.
1956 • Les Paul made the first 8 track recording. • He did so using the “Sel- Sync” method.
1965 • The Dolby Type A, noise reduction system was introduced.
1967 • The Broadway musical, Hair, opened using a high- powered sound system.
1976 • Dr. Stockham from Soundstream made the first 16- bit digital recording system.
1980 • A multitrack digital recorder was introduced. • It was introduced by Sony, Studer, and Mitsubishi in the same year.
1981 • The Compact Disc, or a CD, was demonstrated.
1983 • Fiber- optic cable was used for long distance audio transmission. • It linked New York and Washington DC.
1986 • Dr. Gunther Theile introduced the “sphere microphone.”
1991 • Alesis unveiled the ADAT. • ADAT was the first affordable, mutitrack recorder.
The End • Thank you for watching!!