1974 A-V Buyers Guide Rewire Your Future/game plan for the electronic maze
AUDIO Rewire Yourself London — We are, as Americans, a totally electric people. The manner to which we’ve become accustomed is electric. Electronics over-sees our style: it makes lights flash red at comers, lets jets land, and decides when your toast is brown enough.
1974 A-V Buyers Guide Rewire Your Future/game plan for the electronic maze
Getting The Sound
1877: Tom Edison invents tinfoil phonograph. The first words back from the machine are “Mary had a little lamb...”
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1887: Emile Berliner invents the flat record disc.
1888: Twelve year old concert pianist Josef Hofmann becomes the first recording artist as he records a few ditties for Edison’s phonograph.
1890: Commercial recording is being done on wax cylinders which require a performance for every cylinder. Actually mass production was accomplished, by putting twelve recording machines around the band so twelve cylinders could be made per performance. Okay Bob, play “Blowin’In The Wind” a few thousand times.
1894: Berliner has found a way of stamping records so one master can be used to make many copies. He’s using hard rubber to make the discs at this point.
1897: Berliner switches to shellac discs.
1901: The Victor Talking Machine Company started by Berliner and Eldridge Johnson.
1902: Caruso starts recording. Not only is he good, but his vocal range is within the narrow limits of the reproduction systems so you can hear what he’s singing.