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The invention of the Phonograph.
American inventor Thomas Edison was the first person to invent a device to record and play music on. It was made by him in 1877 and he called it the phonograph. The sound quality was really bad and each recording lasted for one only play. Edison was trying to improve the telegraph transmitter when he noticed that the movement of the paper tape through the machine produced a noise resembling spoken words when played at a high speed. Experimenting with a stylus (hard-pointed instrument like a larg -
The invention of the graphophone.
Fairly soon after came the graphophone. The graphophone used wax cylinders which could be played many times, however, each cylinder had to be recorded separately making the mass reproduction of the same music or sounds impossible. -
Development of the gramaphone.
Next up came the gramophone. It was the first device to stop recording on cylinders and start recording on flat disks or records. Because there was no electricity you had to wind it up to use it. It was invented by Emile Berliner and the first records used by the gramophone were made of glass. A spiral groove with sound information was etched into the flat record and the record was rotated on the gramophone. The "arm" of the gramophone had a needle that read the grooves with vibration. -
Cassette tapes are intorduced.
In the 1970's cassette tapes were widely used to record and listen to music. They used magnetic tape, and the music played through from left to right. Once one side was done, you flipped it over for more songs on the other. In the late 1970s, this product became just as famous as the LPs in those days.The first models of the cassette players were actually designed as dictation machines and recording devices for personal use instead of devices for music. -
The Sony Walkman
The Sony Walkman was the first truly personal cassette player and was incredibly popular when it first came out in 1979. During the 1980s, cassette players were a boom in the music industry. This was influenced by the invention of the Sony’s Walkman that can be used for the cassette players in the market. Product sales rose and fall throughout the years. And, after awhile, the cassette player had to stand back and give way for the introduction of another product known as the CDs in the year1993 -
Sony Mini Disk Players
Mini Disk players were brought out in 1992. It was the first time you could listen to songs the way you wanted to hear them, as you could move or delete songs either on the player or on a PC. -
Compact CD Players
Around the same time CDs (or Compact Disks) and CD players became widely available. They soon beat cassettes in the popularity stakes because you could skip directly to the song you wanted to listen to.From the person who invented the cassette player to the introduction of CDs and VCDs, it just goes to show that music continues to remain as a huge part of our history even though products may come and go. -
A brand new creation - THE IPOD!!
In 2001 something came onto the market that changed the way we listen to music. The iPod. It was the first listening device where you could upload songs digitally, storing 100's in one go. Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player the iPod, created under project codename Dulcimer. The iPod was announced several months after the release of iTunes, a program that converted audio CDs into compressed digital audio files, and could organizes your digital music collection. -
YOUTUBE!
The invention of youtube yet again changed the way we consume music. Many people use the website to listen to their favourtie songs. At one stage, people were also able to download songs off of youtube to then listne on their music devices. -
The Ipod Touch
The iPod touch was released in 2007 and was the first music device to have Wi-Fi so users could connect to the iTunes Store and download tunes and listen to them straight away. -
Music Devices today...
Nowadays most of us listen to music through our phones, and can simply download songs over the internet. We can download as many as we like and even use software to live stream songs without having to download them at all.
