MMC 2604 Chapter 4: Chapter 4 Notes
23 Oct 2018
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The development of sound recording: from cylinders to disks: sound recording becomes a mass medium. 1850s edourd-leon scott de martinville: conducted rst experiment with sound recording. 1877 thomas edison: success playing back sound, invented the phonograph, patented it in 1878 as an answering machine. 1886 chichester bell and charles sumner tainter: graphophone. 1887 emile berliner: gramophone, brought sound recording into its mass medium stage. 1906 victor talking machine company: put record players inside a piece of furniture: victrola. 1948 cbs records: introduced the long playing record. 1949 rca developed lp record player better for juke boxes. 1953 cbs and rca compromised: from phonographs to cds: analog goes digital. 1940s audiotape and tape players were invented: allowed home dubbing. Invented in 1931 but not used until 1958, stereo by alan blumlein. 1970s thomas stockham made the rst digital recording on a computer. 1983 cds: the rocky relationship between records and radio. 1924 radio started providing free entertainment, competing with records.
