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The history of sound recording - which has progressed in waves, driven by the invention and commercial introduction of new technologies — can be roughly divided into four main periods: The Acoustic era (1877–1925) The Electrical era (1925–1945) The Magnetic era (1945–1975)
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Learn how sound waves are transmitted and reproduced by different media, such as phonographic discs, audiotapes and digital compact discs. Explore the history and development of sound recording technology and its applications in music and communication.
Early history. Mechanical organ, 1650. Long before sound was first recorded, music was recorded—first by written music notation, then also by mechanical devices (e.g., wind-up music boxes, in which a mechanism turns a spindle, which plucks metal tines, thus reproducing a melody ).
May 1, 2018 · It was captured in Paris by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville in the late 1850s, nearly two decades before Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone call (1876) or Thomas Edison’s phonograph...
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Mar 7, 2020 · Learn about the timeline of sound recording from acoustical to digital, from phonograph to dictaphone, from gramophone to multitrack. Discover the inventors, the techniques, the culture and the business of sound recording.
Music recording - Audio Technology, Preservation, History: In 1877 the U.S. inventor Thomas Edison heard “Mary had a little lamb” emanate from a machine into which he had just spoken the ditty. It was the first time a recording of the human voice had been reproduced, and the event signaled the birth of the phonograph.
Jul 17, 2017 · Who Invented Sound Recording? Thomas Edison was catapulted to international fame with his 1877 invention of the phonograph—a machine that recorded and played back anything that it “heard.” But Edison was not the first person to record sound.
