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An Edison Home Phonograph for recording and playing brown wax cylinders, c. 1899. The phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, [12] could both record sound and play it back. The earliest type of phonograph sold recorded on a thin sheet of tinfoil wrapped around a grooved metal cylinder.
The "phonograph" was first demonstrated in Australia on 14 June 1878 to a meeting of the Royal Society of Victoria by the Society's Honorary Secretary, Alex Sutherland who published "The Sounds of the Consonants, as Indicated by the Phonograph" in the Society's journal in November that year. [11] On 8 August 1878 the phonograph was publicly ...
The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound is a reference work that, among other things, describes the history of sound recordings, from November 1877 when Edison developed the first model of a cylinder phonograph, and earlier, in 1857, when Léon Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph. [1]
Year Month and date (if applicable) Event type Details 1877: Invention: Thomas Edison's phonograph becomes the first device to record and reproduce sound. The method is fragile, however, and is prone to damage. [2] 1879: Invention: Thomas Edison invents the first dictation machine, a slightly improved version of his phonograph. [2] 1936: Invention
Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ([e.dwaʁ.le.ɔ̃ skɔt də maʁ.tɛ̃.vil]; 25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) was a French printer, bookseller and inventor.. He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph, which was patented in France on 25 March 1857.
Though no trace of a working paleophone was ever found, Cros is remembered by some historians as an early inventor of a sound recording and reproduction machine. [11] The first practical sound recording and reproduction device was the mechanical phonograph cylinder, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877 and patented in 1878.
The new machine has a range of from 100 to 5,000 [cycles per second], or five and a half octaves ... The 'phonograph tone' is eliminated by the new recording and reproducing process. [34] Sales of records plummeted precipitously during the early years of the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the entire record industry in America nearly ...
Scottish inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. 1877: American inventor Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. 1877: German industrialist Werner von Siemens developed a primitive loudspeaker. 1878: First electric street lighting in Paris, France 1878: First hydroelectric plant in Cragside, England 1878