1. Kenyanna Easter

2.  Thomas Alva Edison, working in his lab, succeeds in recovering Mary's Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder. He demonstrates his invention in the offices of Scientific American, and the phonograph is born.

3.  The first song is put on record “Yankee Doodle Dandy”

4.  Clement Ader used carbon microphones and armature headphones when he accidentally produces a stereo effect when people outside the hall adjacent telephone lines linked to stage mikes at the Paris Opera.

5.  Arconi achieves wireless radio transmission from Italy to America.

6.  Emile Berliner is granted a patent on a flat- disc gramophone, making the production of multiple copies practical.

7.  Edison introduces an electric motor driven phonograph related to a record player or turntable.

8.  Marconi successfully experiments with his wireless telegraphy system in Italy leading to the first transatlantic signals from Poldhu, Cornwall, UK to St. John's, Newfoundland in 1901.  Telegraphy-it sends message without the use of a physical exchange bearing the object. Kind of like a cell phone or house phone.

9.  Emile Berliner and Eldridge Johnson founder of “The Victor Talking Machine Company”.

10.  Experimental optical recordings are made on motion picture film.

11.  Lee DeForest invents the triode vacuum tube, the first electronic signal amplifier.

12.  The Radio Corporation of America (RCA) is founded.

13.  1930s Wire recording.

14.  Edwin F. Armstrong received a patent for a regenerative circuit making radio reception practical.  Patent- grant giving by the government to an inventor of his invention.

15.  The first talking movie is showed by Edison using his Kinetophone process.  Kinetophone- The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.

16.  The “Scully disk” recording lathe is introduced  Scully disk lathe/Presto- PRESTO Recording Corporation was a powerhouse company in the broadcast and recording industry and most radio stations and networks that made use of disc recorders for delayed broadcast, or air checks.

17.  The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by “KDKA”

18.  The Jazz Singer is released as the first commercial talking picture using Vitaphone sound on disks.  Vitaphone- was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner brothers and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931.

19.  Magnetic recording on steel wire is developed commercially

20.  Benjamin B. Bauer of Shure Bros makes a single microphone element to produce a cardioid pickup pattern called the Unidyne, Model 55. This later becomes the basis for the well known SM57 and SM58 microphones

21.  The RCA LC-1 loudspeaker has developed a reference-standard control-room monitor

22.  RCA introduces the microgroove 45 rpm, large hole 7-inch record and record changer/adaptor.

23.  3M introduces the first 2-track closed-loop capstan drive recorder, the M-23.

24.  The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers sets the standard for the time code format.

25.  3M introduces Scotch 201/202 Dynarange, a black oxide low noise mastering tape with a 4 dB improvement in s/n ratio over Scotch 111.

26.  The Dolby type a noise reduction system is introduced.

27.  1987 - The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany began research code named EUREKA project EU147, Digital Audio Broadcasting

28.  Audio DVD Standard 1.0 agreed upon by manufacturers.

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