1. By: Kaitlyn Barth

2.  Inventors created “mechanical instruments” that played pre-recorded music. They included hydro-powered organs, automatic flutes, and a player piano.

3.  Audio Engineering began during the 1800s.

4.  Scottish physicist, James Clerk Maxwell predicted the existence of radio waves.

5.  Mahlon Loomis, a dentist successfully demonstrated “wireless telegraphy” by making a meter connected to one kite make another one move, marking the first wireless aerial communication.

6.  Thomas Alva Edison was the first to use recording technology and audio engineering by recording “Mary’s Little Lamb”.

7.  The first music was put on record in 1878.

8.  Emile Berliner was granted a patent on a flat disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies.

9.  Emily Berliner built on the cylinder phonograph with her disk phonograph that became popular throughout the world.

10.  Valdemear Poulsen makes his “telegraphone” by recording magnetically on a steel wire.

11.  Lee Deforest invents the vacuum tube which was the first electronic signal amplifier.

12.  Electrical audio engineering changed the recording process by introducing the microphone.

13.  The film “The Jazz Singer” was the first movie to use photo cells to record music right into the movie.

14.  The Columbia Broadcasting System is formed. This is also known as (CBS).

15.  Multitrack engineering was developed to record simultaneous tracks onto a recording medium.  The Ampex company began to sell personal tape recorders.

16.  The Disney film “Fantasia” was the first movie to use stereo sound.

17.  The movie “Forbidden Planet” is released with an all electronic film score, composed by Louis and Bebe Barron.

18.  Digital recording was created and became the preferred method of recording in the 1990s

19.  Phillips demonstrates the compact disc or the CD.

20.  The compact disc and other recording technology was invented which has become a popular audio recording and made the development of Mp3 technology.

21.  The Apple Corporation releases the Macintosh Computer.

22.  Dolby introduces the Spectral Recording System.

23.  The DVD disc was released and invented.

24.  Mp3 Players appeared for downloaded internet audio.

25.  Audio DVD Standard was agreed by manufactures.

26.  Dual Disc makes their double sided DVD with on side being the CD and the other side being the DVD.

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