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1. MUSIC RECORDINGS
MARTA CASTILLO PECERO 1ºB

2. INTRODUCCTION
• For centuries man had dreamed of capturing the
sounds and music of his environment. Many had
attempted it but no one had succeeded until Thomas
Alva Edison discovered a method of recording and
playing back sound. What had started out as an
apparatus intended as part of an improved telephone
led to the development of an instrument which would
change the world, making it a happier, even a better,
place to live.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VFdKZoDXU

3. TIMELINE
• INDEX:
THE BEGINNING (1800´S)
20th CENTURY
TIMELINE IN IMAGES

4. THE BEGINNING (1800´S)
• 1857 Frenchman Leon Scott invented the phonautograph which
translated fluctuating air pressures into a scribed trace on a smoked
cylinder by means of a stylus attached to a membrane. The
resulting transcription could not reproduce the sound.
The first recording devices were scientific instruments used to
capture and study sound waves. These devices were capable of
recording voices and other sounds long before the phonograph.
• The most famous of these was Leon Scott's 1857 Phonoautograph.
This device used a horn to direct sound toward a flexible diaphragm
placed at the small end. Attached to the diaphragm was a stylus and
lever assembly that allowed the point to scratch out a line on a
rotating cylinder beneath it. The cylinder (glass strips were later
used) was coated with "lampblack," probably applied by holding it
over a flame and allowing carbon to accumulate.

6. Thomas Edison invented first machine that could record sound: 19 Feb 1877, Thomas
found a way to record sound by using two needles on tinfoil cylinders. The first words he
had recorded were 'Mary had a little lamb'
Graphaphone: 1 Jan 1886: Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, and Charles Tainter of
the Volta laboratory obtained several patents for a commercial talking machine which was
the graphaphone. The graphaphone was based on Thomas 's phonograph. The stylus for the
graphaphone was more of a cutting tool and the tinfoil was replaced with more durable
wax cylinders. These changes made the machine easier to use and the play back was much
clearer. Edison was asked to join the 3, but he did not.
Gramophone: 8 Nov 1887: Emile Berliner was an early developer and inventor of audio
technology including the Gramophone (sound recorder). He was the first inventor to stop
recording on cylinders and start recording on flat disks. The first piece that was recorded
was "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". He had also invented a method of mass producing copies
of an original record.

7. • The phonograph, graphophone and other players purely
mechanical devices through the 1920s. However, in 1924,
Columbia began experiments with a new technology developed
by the Western Electric Company (the division of AT&T that
made telephones and related equipment). Western Electric's
recorder used electronic amplifiers to drive an
• electromagnetic cutting head, rather than relying on the
acoustic horn. The result was a louder, clearer record. In the
beginning, the record players still relied on acoustic playback
with a horn, but as the home radio became popular, it became
more common for people to purchase record players that had
electric motors and electronic amplifiers. Some of them had a
built-in loudspeaker, while others plugged into specially
equipped radio sets and played through them. While some said
the new "Orthophonic" records sounded harsh, they soon
dominated the market.

8. Ethnomusicologist frances Densmore
recording Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for
the Bureau of American Ethnology (1916)

9. 20th CENTURY
• The first electrical recordings was issued : 1 Jan
1925: Victor and Colombia in the US, issued the
first electrical recordings.
• IN 1930: record companies adapted sound: Many
major film producers now used sounds on film.
• In 1940: world war II: During the 1940's in ww2,
the recorded music and the radio industry was
largely used by the soldiers to entertain their
boredom

10. • In 1962: Cassette tapes: The Philips Company of the
Netherlands invented and released the first compact audio-cassette
using high-quality polyester 1/8-inch tape produced
by BASF.
• 1965: CD´s: Sony and Philips get credit for developing the
compact disc in 1981, But James Russell developed it in 1965,
20 years earlier in the Tri-Cities. The CD gained popularity only
after Philips started manufacturing it in 1980 on a commercial
basis.
• 1979: Voicemail: Gordon Matthews had invented the
voicemail. Quoting "When I call a business, I like to talk to a
human"
• The First Ipod was released: 23 Oct 2001: The very first Ipod
classic was released by Apple with the capacity of 5, 10 GBs
and the battery life of 10 hours.

11. TIMELINE IN IMAGES