America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound (2nd Edition) by André Millard

America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound (2nd Edition) by André Millard

By André Millard

With Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph, the attractive track that used to be the defend of the rich grew to become a industrially produced purchaser solid, affordable sufficient to be to be had to all. In 1877 Edison dreamed that in the future there will be a speaking desktop in each domestic. the US on checklist: A heritage of Recorded Sound, first released in 2006, offers a heritage of sound recording from the 1st skinny sheet of tinfoil that used to be manipulated into conserving sound to the house recordings of rappers within the Eighties and the high-tech studios of the Nineteen Nineties. This ebook examines the $64000 technical advancements of acoustic, electrical, and electronic sound replica whereas outlining the cultural impression of recorded song and flicks. This moment version updates the tale, describing the electronic revolution of sound recording with the increase of desktops, Napster, DVD, MP3, and iPod.

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1. Assembling gramophones in Berliner's Washington shop. (Library of Congress) in 1887 and acquired the Howe sewing machine factory of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The graphophones produced here had the same wood base and foot treadle used in sewing machines. " The Edison Speaking Phonograph Company was formed in 1878; many of its members were also involved in telephone companies. Once Edison had moved from Menlo Park to West Orange in 1887, he began to construct two large factories to assemble talking machines.

Gray succeeded in transmitting sounds by the same methods that Bell used to transmit speech. By the time that Bell moved to Boston, the term telephone had already been applied to an acoustic telegraph invented by Philip Reis of Germany in 1861. This device used the vibrations of sound to move a diaphragm that activated a make-and-break telegraph circuit. Although Reis believed that his device could transmit the sound of the human voice, like Gray he concentrated on sending musical tones. Bell managed to beat his many competitors in this field by being the first to apply for a patent on February 14, 1876, just a few hours before Elisha Gray arrived at the patent office to file a preliminary application for virtually the same idea.

Once an acceptable master recording had been made, Johnson faced the problem of making a matrix from the wax master - the same problem that Edison had confronted earlier. After more than 2 years of experiments, Johnson came up with much the same solution. His masters were first covered with a fine layer of metal dust, and then more metal was electroplated onto the primary layer to make the negative matrix. The matrix was then used to stamp the duplicate onto soft wax blanks. The resulting duplicates had none of the surface noise that spoiled the Berliner discs and had a much louder reproduction than an Edison cylinder.

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