History Of Audio: Overview
The history of audio, from Edison’s inventions to today’s audio DVD is an amazing timeline that has been crammed with outstanding individuals, inventions and innovations. The historical accomplishments are what makes today’s audio, and are the signboards of the future of audio, as people continue to find out what else is possible in audio.
There have been wealth of discoveries, inventions and innovations and there still would be, but the following is what has formed the basis of innovation, and created huge impact in audio.
Thomas Alva Edison is seen as the founder of audio, being the earliest person to record and play back human voice in 1877. The first viable media to record human voice was tin foil, which he replaced after various failed attempts of using paper. This was the invention of the Phonograph.
The next year saw Edison improvise the Phonograph and came up with Ediphone. It maintained the same technology but highlighted the use of cylinders coated with paraffin to record sound. Use of Paraffin was advantageous because it allowed erasures where recorded sound could be expunged and re-used again.
The same year, 1888, Emile Berliner, who was a German Immigrant who settled in Washington D.C replaced the cylinders used by Edison with flat recording disc and a stylus to record the audio. This was to be known as the Gramophone.
Based on these three main concepts and inventions, the dictation market grew with new innovations and inventions to replace the old ones. And that is how milestones in audio development were achieved.
