By: Kayla Alston

(:History of Audio(:

Alexander G. Bell invented the graphophone.

1876

Emile Berliner created the first working microphone. It was used as a telephone voice transmitter. (:

1876

Thomas Alva Edison recorded the first piece of audio, “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on the phonograph.

1887

Sony created the first Walkman cassette player.

1979

Philips and Sony created the first CD.

1988

Sony made DAT, Digital Audio Tape. It’s a palm sized device that can have music and pictures on it.

1990

Alexander Graham Bell was the first man to invent the telephone.

1870s

Dag Kittalaus created Siri which stands for Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface and means beautiful woman who  leads you to victory in Norwegian. (:

2011

Bernhard Grill, Thomas Sporer, Ernst Eberlein, Karl Heinz Brandenburg and Bernd Kurten created the first mp3 player.

1987

Bill Gates introduces the Zune.(:

2006

Hartmut Esslinger designed the first iPhone. P:

1983

Charles P. Ginsburg developed the first practical videotape recorder.

1951

http://library.thinkquest.org/19537/Timeline.html

www.ehow.com/facts_4865978_history-audio-recording.htm

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_phongrph_1.html

http://theweek.com/article/index/226216/how-apples-siri-got-her-name

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/isaacson-gates-jobs-guy-zune-ipod/

Credits(:

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/apples-first-iphone-was-made-in-1983-20120102-1phne.html

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blvideo.htm

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