EMI stands for the Electric and Musical Industries which was formed in 1931 by the merger of the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company. Magnetic recording is the technique of storing electric signals as a magnetic pattern on a moving magnetic surface.
The concept of recording sound on magnet tape and thus the principle of the tape recorder was worked out theoretically in 1888 by the English inventor Oberlin Smith. Fritz Pfleumer was a German-Austrian engineer who invented magnetic tape for recording sound in 1928.
History and Evolution of Sound Recording. Recorded sound was invented in the 1850s by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a “French Parisian typesetter who managed to capture sound nearly two ...
History and Evolution of Sound Recording. Recorded sound was invented in the 1850s by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, a “French Parisian typesetter who managed to capture sound nearly two decades before Thomas Edison’s famous recording of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil” (Wilkinson, 2008). “Interestingly, Scott did not intend ...
Hayes. Thomas Edison filed his first patent in Great Britain on sound recording and the reproduction of sound in July of 1877.
Thomas Edison filed his first patent in Great Britain on sound recording and the reproduction of sound in July of 1877. Later in April of 1878, a full specification for the phonograph was filed. “During 1878, the first 600 or so tin foil phonographs were made by several small machine shops at Edison’s request.
In the 1890s, Emile Berliner improved on Thomas Edison’s cylinder design by developing a flat recording disc that became the music industry norm (Watt, 2006). Emile’s disc was made on a zinc disc coated with wax.