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First audio player
In 1877 Thomas Edison invented the phonograph to have music
Whenever requested. This greatly increased Thomas Edison’s confidence, as it was his first successful invention. Although the phonograph had many pros, many cons following it such as it’s massive size witch hindered it’s mobility. Also, how it could not reproduce sound signals. -
"Advanced" Technology
In 1981 Thomas Edison decided to expand his work into different cylinder and disc machines, but the disc's went overall. Disc machines were still used up until around 20-30 years ago! -
Hand Cranks
First used by Eldridge Johnson as a hand-cranked motorized gramophone for Berliner in 1896. Berliner and Johnson eventually joined interests to form the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901. Their 1905 Victrola became the industry’s premiere disc phonograph, and the era of the 78 RPM disc standard was born. -
Electrical Sound
In the 1920's electrical innovation combined with electromagnets reinvented the music age, allowing many hours of audio to be recorded and stored in compact devices. -
New forms of media
In 1963 Phillips introduced the audio cassette tape with very strange for the time plastic cords that was playable of off strange machines with spinning wheels to play the audio. -
The Famous Walkman
Sony introduced the walkman to be a portable music player, and it was very successful. Sony really made a profit off the fact that people enjoyed portable music. It started the portable audio stream, which is why you probably have music on you personal devices. -
Digital Audio
The conversion from analog audio to digital files allows for the application of compression coding. In the history of audio recorders and players, computers allow users the greatest flexibility and interaction, especially once compression codecs evolved in availability and quality. -
MP3
Since the Walkman was introduced, the United States has been working on MP3, which would launch the digital audio age with Apple's Ipod in 2001.
