Chronology - Technology and the Music Industry
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman - Continuing Education |
| Discipline(s): |
Computer Engineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering Information Systems Information Technology Software Engineering |
| Special Topic(s): |
History of Technology |
| Learning Resource Type: | Reference - Article/Document |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): | Callie Taintor |
| Description: | "An examination of some of the technological milestones of recorded music -- and reaction from the music industry -- from Thomas Edison's first indentions on tin foil to the current digital revolution." The article begins: "While experimenting with a new telegraph device, Thomas Edison stumbles upon the beginnings of recorded sound. He notices a speech-like noise as he accidentally runs indented tin foil under the telegraph stylus. By the end of the year, he records "Mary Had A Little Lamb" on the first working phonograph, becoming the first inventor to successfully record the human voice (although the speaker is forced to shout to produce an audible playback). By 1885, rival inventors Chichester Bell and Charles Tainter challenge Edison's phonograph with their "graphophone." The graphophone, like Edison's phonograph, creates sound as an engraved wax cylinder rotates against a stylus. Edison responds in 1887 with a phonograph that utilizes a battery-driven motor, which produces a constant pitch the original hand crank can't match. " |
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| Keywords: | Edison, phonographs, audio recordings, digital music |
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| Use of Resource: | Part of "The Way the Music Died" series on PPS. Could be used as a case study in technology and its adaption. |
| Difficulty: | Medium |
| Interactivity Level: | Medium |
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| Publication Date: | October 2007 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/music/inside/cron... |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
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