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The Evolution of Audio Technology: A Timeline from Edison to Eight-Track Sound

Discover the remarkable journey of audio technology from its inception in the late 19th century to mid-20th century innovations. This timeline highlights key milestones such as Thomas Edison recording "Mary's Little Lamb" in 1877, Emile Berliner's patent for the gramophone in 1888, the advent of electric motors for phonographs in 1895, and the establishment of RCA in 1919. It also covers revolutionary developments like magnetic recording, the first live broadcast featuring Enrico Caruso, and the introduction of eight-track sound with Disney's "Fantasia" in 1944.

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The Evolution of Audio Technology: A Timeline from Edison to Eight-Track Sound

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  1. Evolution of audio By Payton Crouch

  2. 1877 • Thomas Edison achieved to record “Mary's Little Lamb” on tin foil.

  3. 1878 • The first song was recorded. “Yankee Doodle”

  4. 1887 • Emile Berliner is granted a patent for a gramophone that makes multiple copies practical.

  5. 1888 • Edison invents an electric motor phonograph.

  6. 1895 • Marconi experiments with his wireless telegraphy system in Italy, leading to the first transatlantic signals from Poldhu.

  7. 1898 • ValdemarPoulsen patents his "Telegraphone," recording magnetically on steel wire.

  8. 1900 • At the Paris Exposition Poulsen unveils his invention to the public.

  9. 1901 • Victor Talking Machine Company is founded by Emile Berliner and Eldridge Johnson. • Optical recordings are made on a experimental motion picture film.

  10. 1906 • Lee DeForest invents the first electronic signal amplifier, the triode vacuum tube.

  11. 1910 • Enrico Caruso is heard in the first live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, NYC.

  12. 1912 • Major Edwin F. Armstrong becomes a patent for a regenerative circuit, making radio reception posible.

  13. 1913 • The first movie with sound is demonstrated by Edison using his Kinetophone process.

  14. 1916 • The Society of Motion Picture Engineers is formed. • Edison does live-versus-recording demonstrations in Carnegie Hall, NYC.

  15. 1919 • The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is founded.

  16. 1921 • The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA, in Pittsburgh PA.

  17. 1933 • Magnetic recording on steel wire is developed. • Snow, Fletcher, and Steinberg at Bell Labs transmit the first inter-city stereo audio program.

  18. 1936 • BASF makes the first tape recording of a symphony concert, that Sir Thomas Beecham conducts Mozart. • Von Braunmühl and Weber apply for a patent on a cardioid condenser microphone.

  19. 1940 • Walt Disney eight-track stereophonic soundof "Fantasia" is released.

  20. 1944 • Alexander Poniatoffforms Ampex Corporation to make electric motors for the military.

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