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Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877.After patenting the invention and benefiting from the publicity and acclaim it received, Edison and his laboratory turned their attention to the commercial development of electric lighting, playing no further role in the development of the phonograph for nearly a decade.
The tape was 0.1 inches (2.5 mm) wide and 0.003 inches (0.076 mm) thick running at 5 feet per second (1.5 m/s) past the recording and reproducing heads. This meant that the length of tape required for a half-hour program was nearly 1.8 miles (2.9 km) and a full reel weighed 55 pounds (25 kg).
Scholz Research & Development, Inc. was the name of the company founded by musician and engineer Tom Scholz to design and manufacture music technology products. Scholz is an MIT-trained engineer who developed many of his skills as a product design engineer working on audio-production equipment at Polaroid in the early 1970s.
A Digital Compact Cassette Digital, 1 ⁄ 8 inch wide tape, 1 + 7 ⁄ 8 in/s, introduced by Philips and Matsushita in late 1992, marketed as the successor to the standard analog compact cassette WAV (file format) Digital. Named after the waveform created by a sound wave. Dolby Digital Cinema Sound Digital. Also known as Dolby Stereo Digital ...
Later improvements through the years included modifications to the turntable and its drive system, stylus, pickup system, and the sound and equalization systems. The disc phonograph record was the dominant commercial audio distribution format throughout most of the 20th century, and phonographs became the first example of home audio that people ...
Reginald Fessenden was born October 6, 1866, in East Bolton, Canada East, the eldest of the Reverend Elisha Joseph Fessenden and Clementina Trenholme's four children. . Elisha Fessenden was a Church of England in Canada minister, and the family moved to a number of postings throughout the province of On
Seeburg was an American design and manufacturing company of automated musical equipment, such as orchestrions, jukeboxes, and vending equipment. Founded in 1902, its first products were Orchestrions and automatic pianos but after the arrival of gramophone records, the company developed a series of "coin-operated phonographs."
1993 Developed the twin deck DJ CD player DN-2000F. [5] Other early models are the DN1000F, DN2000F and the DN2500F. Denon also made the world's only twin MiniDisc player designed for DJ use. [6] 1994 Awarded European Audio Innovation of the Year. 1999 World's first THX-EX home theater system (THX Extended to provide fuller surround sound). [7]