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The American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth (1906–1971) developed in Los Angeles, the first fully electronic television system in the world. John Logie Baird developed his Phonovision , the first videodisc player. 30-line television images are stored on shellac records.
The ondes Martenot (/ ˈ oʊ n d m ɑːr t ə ˈ n oʊ / OHND mar-tə-NOH; French: [ɔ̃d maʁtəno], "Martenot waves") or ondes musicales ("musical waves") is an early electronic musical instrument. It is played with a keyboard or by moving a ring along a wire, creating "wavering" sounds similar to a theremin .
The earliest patent for pinking shears was U.S. patent #489,406 which was issued to Louise Austin of Whatcomb, Washington, on January 3, 1893. [39] Early 1890s Phantoscope. A film projection machine created by Charles Francis Jenkins in the early 1890s. Jenkin's machine was the first projector to allow each still frame of the film to be ...
1940 : Homer W. Dudley introduced the Voder Speech Synthesizer; 1940 : The Hammond Organ Company releases the Solovox; 1941 : Commercial FM broadcasting begins in the US; 1944 : Halim El-Dabh produces The Expression of Zaar, the earliest piece of electroacoustic tape music [2] [3] 1944 : Harold Rhodes built the first prototype of the Rhodes Piano
Developments in early recording technology paralleled that of electronic instruments. The first means of recording and reproducing audio was invented in the late 19th century with the mechanical phonograph. [24] Record players became a common household item, and by the 1920s composers were using them to play short recordings in performances. [25]
Allen introduced the world's first digital organ (and first digital musical instrument commercial product) in 1971: the Allen Digital Computer Organ. [38] [39] [40] This new technology was developed for use in home organs by North American Rockwell (project leader Ralph Deutsch) and licensed to Allen, which began using it for church organs ...
[1] [2] It was the first electronic "mass medium" technology, and its introduction, along with the subsequent development of sound films, ended the print monopoly of mass media. During the Golden Age of Radio it had a major cultural and financial impact on the country.
[11] [12] It was the first synthesizer sold in music stores, [6] and was more practical for live performance. It standardized the concept of synthesizers as self-contained instruments with built-in keyboards. [13] [14] In the early 1970s, the British composer Ken Freeman introduced the first string synthesizer, designed to emulate string ...