Entry Date:
1935
AEG builds Magnetophon
AEG demonstrates the Magnetophon at IFA.
Entry Date:
1
July
2002
Apple Acquires Emagic
Apple Acquires Emagic.
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June
2015
Apple Announce Music Streaming Service
Apple have announced the release of a streaming service along with various changes to music on iOS.
References
- www.apple.com (Accessed: 08 Jun 2015)
Entry Date:
30
June
2015
Apple Music Arrives Today
Apple Music is now available in the UK with a free 3 month trial.
References
- www.apple.com (Accessed: 30 Jun 2015)
Entry Date:
09
January
2001
Apple Release iTunes
Apple releases iTunes.
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Entry Date:
09
April
1860
Au Clair de la Lune recorded on the Phonautograph
Au Clair de la Lune recorded on the Phonautograph and finally heared in May 2010.
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Entry Date:
April
1936
Church publishes, An unsolvable problem of elementary number theory
Alonzo Church publishes, An unsolvable problem of elementary number theory in American Journal of Mathematics.
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Entry Date:
1
June
1944
Colossus Mark 2 Operational
The Mark 2 Colossus enters operational service at Bletchley Park.
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Entry Date:
5
February
1944
Colossus Operational
The Colossus enters operational service at Bletchley Park.
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Entry Date:
December
1943
Colossus Prototype first works
Built by T. Flowers and his team at Dollis Hill Post Office Research Station.
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Entry Date:
10
December
1945
ENIAC Produces feasibility study of weapon
ENIAC designed at University of Pennsylvania US calculates thermonuclear weapon design feasibility.
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Entry Date:
1969
Electronic Music Studios Established
Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary and David Cockerell establish the Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd (EMS).
Entry Date:
1980
Fairlight CMI
The Fairlight CMI a digital sampling sythesiser is released.
References
- Good Vibrations
Entry Date:
18
October
1922
First BBC Broadcast
First BBC broadcast from London, station 2LO.
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Entry Date:
March
1983
First CDs in Europe
First CDs arrive in Europe.
References
- An International History of the Recording Industry
Entry Date:
October
1982
First CDs in Japan
First CDs arrive in Japan.
References
- An International History of the Recording Industry
Entry Date:
1983
First CDs in USA
First CDs arrive in the USA.
References
- An International History of the Recording Industry
Entry Date:
21
January
1983
First MIDI Demonstration
The first MIDI connection demonstration.
Entry Date:
24
December
1906
First radio broadcast for entertainment and music
Reginald Aubrey Fessenden built a complete system of wireless transmission and reception using amplitude modulation. A revolution from dots and dashes.
Entry Date:
1928
Fritz Pfleumer Tape Patent
Fritz Pfleumer gets patent for magnetic tape.
Entry Date:
1927
Fritz Pfleumer Tape Prototype
Fritz Pfleumer puts iron oxide on thin paper with lacquer as glue, magnetic tape.
Entry Date:
18
December
1997
Fruity Loops Version 1
Fruity Loops version 1 released.
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Entry Date:
23
June
2003
G5 Power PC
Apple announces the G5 Power PC processor.
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Entry Date:
April
1928
Harry Nyquist Publishes
Publication of 'Certain topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory' establishing the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.
References
- Wikipedia
- by Harry Nyquist
Entry Date:
21
November
1877
Invention of the Phonograph
Edison's announced the phonograph, the first device capable of recording and playing back audio.
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Entry Date:
30
December
2015
Jesnsen Turntable Top Seller for Amazon
This years top selling home audio product at Amazon is the a turntable.
References
- www.factmag.com (Accessed: 31 Dec 2015)
Entry Date:
16
1890
Louis Le Prince Disappears.
Louis Le Prince is last seen boarding a train to Paris.
Entry Date:
18
January
2019
MIDI 2.0 Prototyping
MMA and AMEI announce the prototyping of v2 of MIDI.
Entry Date:
1982
MIDI Specification Announced
The original midi specification, a language, a file format and a connector.
Entry Date:
2013
MIDI Technical Grammy Award
Ikutaro Kakehashi and Dave Smith recognised for MIDI development.
Entry Date:
April
1949
Manchester Baby Operational
Manchester Automatic Digital Machine, or MADM later Manchester Baby becomes operational introduced as the electronic brain.
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Entry Date:
12
December
1901
Marconi transmitts the letter S across the Atlantic.
Marconi transmits the letter S across the Atlantic ocean.
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Entry Date:
2
February
2019
Marshmello Fortnite Concert
Marshmello perfroms a virtual concert in free-to-play Fortnite.
Entry Date:
1981
Mitsubishi X-80
One of the first 2 track digital recorder.
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Entry Date:
1987
Mitsubishi X-850
A 32 Track digital recorder.
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Entry Date:
23
2003
OS X Jaguar
Apple releases OS X Jaguar 10.2
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Entry Date:
28
May
1936
On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem
Alan Turing publishes, On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem in Proceedings of the London mathematical society.
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Entry Date:
6
November
1919
PCGG starts broadcasting
In The Hague PCGG starts regular broadcasting, the first commercial radio station.
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Entry Date:
1
December
1931
Pfleumer grants patent use to AEG
AEG gains permission to use Pfleumer patent.
Entry Date:
08
March
1979
Philips CD Demonstration
Philips demonstrates an optical CD.
References
- An International History of the Recording Industry
- Philips Research Site
Entry Date:
30
1963
Philips Compact Cassette Tape Demonstration
Philips demonstrates the Compact Cassette at the Berlin Radio Show.
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Entry Date:
24
December
1877
Phonograph Patented
Edison's patents the Phonograph .
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Entry Date:
09
1956
Portions of Illiac Suite Premiered
Portions of the Illiac Suite string quartet are premiered after having been composed by the University of Illinois ILLIAC I.
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Entry Date:
July
1956
Push Button Bertha Performance
Adventure Tomorrow, on KCOP Channel 13 LA, includes a performance of the composition Push Button Bertha composed by a Datatron 205.
References
Entry Date:
14
October
1888
Roundhay Garden Scene
Frenchman Louis Le Prince recorded the silent film known as Roundhay Garden Scene including Mrs Sarah Whitley deceased 24 October 1888.
Entry Date:
28
March
1914
Royal Castle of Laeken Broadcasts
Robert Goldschmidt oversees broadcast of short-lived weekly concert series ended due to the facility destruction due to WWI.
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Entry Date:
1971
Sequencer 128 Released
EMS demonstrate the Sequencer 128 a protoype of the Sequencer 256 .
References
Entry Date:
1966
Shure SM 58
The legendary SM58 that continues to find use in both live and studio settings for vocals and speech.
Entry Date:
16
November
1937
Signaling system by Homer Dudley.
US application 2098956 awarded to Homer Dudley of Bell Labs part of Vocoder work.
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Entry Date:
08
1888
Some Possible Forms of Phonograph
Oberlin Smith publishes an article in The Electrical World theorizing magnetic tape.
Entry Date:
1979
Tascam Portastudio TEAC 144
The TASCAM Portastudio TEAC 144 first four track cassette tape recorder.
References
Entry Date:
6
November
1887
The Gramophone
The Gramophone used a side to side movement of the diaphragm for encoding and reading the sound.
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Entry Date:
25
March
1857
The Phonautograph
A device which created a visual recording of a sound wave in the air but offered no method of playback.
References
Entry Date:
17
1915
The Tone Test Concert
Thomas Edison's Phonograph undertakes its first tone test concert.
References
- Perfecting Sound Forever [Page: 4] by Greg Milner
Entry Date:
March
2015
Tidal Streaming Service
Jay-Z has announced the relaunch of the recently acquired Tidal streaming service offering high definition streaming but no free to use tier.
References
- tidal.com (Accessed: 31 Mar 2015)
Entry Date:
1
March
2015
UK Albums Chart Includes Streaming Data
The UK Album chart now includes streaming data as well.
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Entry Date:
April
2015
UK Official Vinyl Chart Launched
The Launch of the UK Official Vinyl Charts for Album and singles.
References
- www.officialcharts.com (Accessed: 13 Apr 2015)
Entry Date:
1
October
1981
USI Specification
The publication of the USI specification at the 70th AES.
Entry Date:
23
October
2001
iPod Announced
Apple Announces the iPod.