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AUDIO DEVICES - TIMELINE

Audio Recording devices - Timeline

Phonograph

1877 - Used cylinders as tool to record, manually rotating cylinders, no electric power

Magnetic Tape

1935 - 58 feet magnetic tape was used, professional recording purpose

Cassette

1963 - Tape recorders & cassette players were used to hear music forever

Compact Disc

1982 - Philips and Sony started the research, joined hands for Commercial launch

DVD

1996 - With higher space, a high fide 1.5 audio, still ruling developing countries

1889 -Used rolling pin cylinder earlier hand cranked turntables later used electric motors for rotation

Gramaphone
Vinyl Disc

1948 - Long playing vinyl disc was introduced

Floppy Disc

1971 - 3.5’, 1.44 mb disc the most popular vernon

USB

2000 - Universal serial bus, used in a bus for connection, communication, power supply between computers and devices

Blu ray disc

2008 - High fidelity pure, uncompressed, with huge space & quality

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