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Jukebox
A jukebox is an automated music-playing device, usually coin operated. The classic ones have buttons with letters and numbers on them that, when entered in combination, are used to play a specific selection.These instruments used paper rolls, metal disks, or metal cylinders to play a musical selection on the instruments enclosed in the device. -
Phonographs
The phonograph was the first device that could record and playback sound. The phonograph was invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. It was made so people could listen to music without physically playing it themselves through an instrument. It is a cylinder with audio recordings engraved on the outside which created the sound of music. -
Gramophone
The gramophone record was invented by Emile Berliner. This was the first flat disk recording device. The original records were made out of glass. These disk were able to be molded into copies for mass production. A needle read the groves of the disk while the arm was being cranked to produce sound. -
Radio
The radio is very closely related to the telephone. It was invented in 1896 by Guglielmo Marconi but it did not become well known until the 1920s. By the 1930s, radios were almost used for everything, news, talk shows, and music were all played through this device. -
Records
Records were first created in 1902 by RCA Victor. The Victoria Model Record was the first player that had multiple turntable speeds. This lead to double sided records, allowing for mass disc recordings. -
Cassettes
The Philips Company introduced the compact cassette in 1963 as a new way of listening to music. This was the first portable music player, so people would be able listen to music on the go. Tape cassettes used a magnetic tape inside to read the music. It was smaller and more affordable than then the earlier music players and could be played in a boombox. People are also able to record music on blank cassette tapes. -
Disc
In 1982, James Russell invented the compact disc, commonly known as CD’s. this music player is a shiny disc that holds more memory than the previous music players. CDs can store much more than just music and is often used to preserve data. -
MP3
The mp3 was created at Erlangen-Nuremberg University in Germany by a team of students lead by Professor Heinz Gerhauser. The mp3 player used MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 audio to use data compression to store audio on devices. Portable audio was introduced in 1998. Music was added to this device from the computer where music was downloaded on the internet or from a CD and then transferred onto an MP3 player. -
iPod
Steve Jobs, the creator of Apple invented the iPod in 2000. It is known as one of the most portable music player, being just slightly smaller than a deck of cards and capable of holding 5GB of music.
