The Phonograph and Tape Recorder
by Kealyn Thaut, Abbie O'Neil, & Averie Bolton
Introduction
- Basis: television/radio/music
- Recording and reproducing sound
- Imagine no duplicates
Phonograph
- 1877; Thomas Edison invented phonograph
- Needles - what makes it work
- Principle of recording and recreating sound
- "Mary had a little lamb" - first recording
- 1878; Edison Speaking Phonograph Company
- Soldiers were able to take music with them
- 1917; US Army created specific phonograph for them
- Other uses
Tape Recorder
- Magnetic sound recording
- 1890's; Valdemar Poulsen
- 1907; Detective Dictograph
- 1940's; Portable Wire Recorders
- 1950-60's; Cheaper Portable
- 2010's; Hot TeK Advanced Nano Digital Audio
Conclusion
- Evolved digitally
- Portable
- Today's voice memo