AUDIO TIMELINEBy: Abby Norton

1877 Thomas Edison, was working in his lab

one day and succeeded in recording “Mary’s Little Lamb” from a strip of tinfoil, wrapped around a spinning cylinder.

1878 The first music is put on record in 1878,

when Jules Levy plays “Yankee Doodle.”

1910 Enrico Caruso is heard in the first live

broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, NYC.

1913 The first “talking movie” is

demonstrated by Edison using his Kinetophone process, a cylinder player mechanically synchronized to a film projector.

1921 The first commercial broadcast on AM

radio is made by KDKA, in Pittsburgh PA.

1928 The first movie with sound came out in

May of 1928.

1940 Walt Disney's “Fantasia” is released,

with eight-track stereophonic sound.

1956 The movie “Forbidden Planet” is

released with the first all-electronic film score. It was written by Louis and Bebe Barron.

1975 Digital tape recording begins to take

control in professional audio studios.

1980 Sony introduces a palm-sized stereo

cassette tape player. This is called a “Walkman.”

1982 “Sony” releases the first CD player.

1984 The Apple Corporation markets the

Macintosh computer. Most people know it was the “Mac”.

1986 The first digital consoles appear.

1998 MP-3 players for downloaded Internet

audio appear.

2001 The first iPod was sold in October 2001. Since then there have been over 250

million iPods sold from Apple.

2007 The first iPhone came out on June 29th,

2007. With this iPhone you could listen to

music!

2010 The first iPad came out on April 3,

2010.3 With this iPad you could listen to music!

2011 The iPad 2 came out on March 11, 2011. With this iPad you could also listen to

music!

1979 On November 1, 1979, the first music

video was lanched.

THAT’S ALL THE END!!!!!!!!!!