In 1877 Thomas Edison changes history when he plays “Mary’s Little Lamb” with tinfoil wrapped around a rotating cylinder. It was the birth of the Phonograph. 10 years later Emile Berliner patents the gramophone, a flat-disc invention making multiple duplication possible.
Gramophone, Kinetophone, Vitaphone, Blattnerphone may be names you’ve never heard of, but these were technological breakthroughs and of course industry buzzwords / trademarks of the times. They were all advances that led to what we know of today as modern Audio Engineering.
It’s been a very interesting journey…
