Prior to this, there was an ongoing battle for the music market. In , modern-day engineers converted some of his paper graphs into actual sound, which are now thought to be the earliest known recordings of sound. Shortly after this in , Thomas Edison invented the phonograph which, unlike the phonautograph, could both record and play sound and was cylindrical in shape. This was later superseded by the 'gramophone record', a round disc created by Emile Berliner, who named his system the "gramophone", distinguishing it from Edison's wax cylinder "phonograph".
The problem with Berliner's discs was that it was hand-propelled, only lasted a couple of minutes and the sound quality was, to say the least, pretty damned awful. From all of us at House Heads , Cheers Peter! Public Domain, Link. Home Friends Merchandise Store one Store two. The Edison-Scott years In the year , a brilliant French inventor by the name of Edouard-Leon Scott, created a specialist device which utilized a vibrating pen which graphically represented sounds, onto small paper discs.
Related Articles. Prev Post. Next Post. Follow Us. Join Our Newsletter. All Rights Reserved. United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales no at this address. What a world, huh? And before vinyl was shellac and before shellac were gigantic cylinders made of zinc and glass. It is made from ethylene crude oil and chlorine, and its creation was part of the plastics boom in the early s. Material scientists were constantly innovating with these synthetic polymers that seemed to outperform wood, stone, leather, ceramic, metal, and glass in various respects.
Forty-two minutes of almost uninterrupted music!? Is your head exploding yet? Probably not. World War II ended just two years ago, and people are still enjoying their music at home one 5-minute song at a time on their 78 rpm shellac records.
To go from a record holding two songs, one on each side, to holding a full-length album? They changed the way music lovers would enjoy listening to their music forever. The announcement of a new vinyl record to be played at a new speed cannot be understated. It created a war within the music industry—the War of Speeds. Record players still come with an rpm setting with three switches—33, 45, and 78—although hardly anybody has 78 records anymore.
Because 78s were mainly shellac records, most of them are either broken or in high-security protective cases. Devised by Masaru Ibuka, the co-founder of Sony, in another device hit the music industry with implications equal to that of the first record player: the Sony Walkman. If you are over the age of 35, the hair on the back of your neck probably just stood up.
The Walkman changed everything. Using magnetic cassette technology cassette tapes , you could grab a music tape, some batteries, and listen to your music anywhere: on the bus, at school, at the beach. No more rushing home from school to crank up your turntable ; with the Walkman, you could take to the streets with your favorite tunes blasting in your eardrums.
Once the Walkman was invented, it felt like all bets were off. With these inventions, how could a vinyl record keep up? It was the end of vinyl records.
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