Evolution of Music Players

By: Kelsey EllisExtra Credit Power point

Phonograph 

• 1877 Thomas Edison invents the phonograph

• The first medium for recording and playing back sound

• It used cylinders instead of discs 

• 1887 Emily Berliner invents the gramophone, the first flat record player 

• The first records were made of glass, later zinc, and eventually plastic

• Over time disc recording became more popular than cylinder recording

Gramophone

Wire Recording

• The wire record was invented in 1898 by Valdimar Poulsen

•  A wire record crimped a wire that coiled around a spoil and it was the crimps in the wire that produced the audio.

German Magnetic Tape Recorders

• 1934 Joesph Begun built the worlds first tape recorder

•  Developed in Germany, based on wire recording

Large-Hole 45rpm Records

• 1949 The Victor company introduces the large-hole 45rpm record

•  The disc's used could hold as much sound as the 12" 78rpm

• They were also smaller and more attractive

Cassette Players & Tapes

• 1963 Phillips develops the compact stereo tape cassettes and players

• During the 1970's, 80's and 90's the cassette player was the most dominate forms of music playback available.

• A cassette tape could hold from 30 to 100 min of music on it. 

Cd Player's

Portable Cd player--

Two different kinds of Cd players--

Cd's 

• 1982 the first Cd is released in Japan, it was Billy Joel's "52nd Street"

• 1983 Cd's are released in the United States

• 1999 recordable CD-R discs become available 

Mp3 Players

• 1998 first mp3 player came out

• Plays radio• Download music to it• Download pictures to it

Ipod, Iphone, Etc.

• 2001 Apple came out with the first ipod 

• And Apple continues to come out with more advanced technology

The End

Technology is going to continue to improve and seeing how music players have evloved over time, I can't want to see what is to come next.