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Encyclopedia - 1877: Encyclopedia - 1877
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alessandro Moreschi: Encyclopedia - Alessandro Moreschi
Alessandro Moreschi (November 11, 1858 - April 21, 1922) was one of the most famous castrati singers of the late 19th century, and was th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Graham Bell: Encyclopedia - Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-American-Canadian scientist and inventor. He was, until recently,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1900s: Encyclopedia - 1900s
1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1900s - Events and Trends. 1900s - Tech...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1870s: Encyclopedia - 1870s
1840s 1850s 1860s - 1870s - 1880s 1890s 1900s 1870s - Events and Trends. 1870s - Technology. The invention of the telephone (1876) by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Recording: Encyclopedia - Sound Recording
Methods and media for sound recording are varied and have undergone significant changes between the first time sound was actually recorde...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Piezoelectricity: Encyclopedia - Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectricity is the ability of certain crystals to generate a voltage in response to applied mechanical stress. The word is derived f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jazz: Encyclopedia - Jazz
Jazz is an original American musical art form, originating around the turn of the 20th century, rooted in Western music technique and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1878: Encyclopedia - 1878
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Sumner Tainter: Encyclopedia - Charles Sumner Tainter
Charles Sumner Tainter (April 25, 1854 - April 20, 1940) was an American engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gramophone Record: Encyclopedia - Gramophone Record
A gramophone record, (also vinyl record, phonograph record, LP record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium: a flat di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cover Version: Encyclopedia - Cover Version
In pop music a cover version is a new rendition of a previously recorded song. Pop musicians may play covers as a tribute to the original...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vitaphone: Encyclopedia - Vitaphone
Vitaphone was a sound film process used on features and nearly 2,000 short subjects produced by Warner Brothers and its sister studio Fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electricity: Encyclopedia - Electricity
Electricity is a property of matter that results from the presence of electric charge. Together with magnetism, it constitutes the fundam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Castrato: Encyclopedia - Castrato
Male ranges Sopranist Alto Tenor Baritenor Baritone Bass-baritone Bass A castrato is a male soprano, mezzo-soprano, or alto voice produ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Cros: Encyclopedia - Charles Cros
Charles Cros (October 1, 1842 - August 9, 1888) was a French poet and inventor. He was born in Fabrezan, Aude, France. Cros was a well re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Belt-drive Turntable: Encyclopedia - Belt-drive Turntable
There are two main types of phonograph turntables still being manufactured today, the older style belt-drive or newer direct-drive system...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disk: Encyclopedia - Disk
A disk or disc (see below) is anything that resembles a flattened cylinder in shape. More specifically: In biology, an intervertebral di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quartz: Encyclopedia - Quartz
Quartz is the most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust. It has a hexagonal crystal structure made of trigonal crystallized ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popular Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Culture - 18th And 19th Century Popular Culture
The growth of modern industry from the late 18th Century onward led to massive urbanization in many Western countries and the rise of new...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Edison Patents: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Edison Patents - American
List of Edison patents - First hundred patents. The first hundred patents mainly deal with the telegraph system. John Kruesi was the sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Laser Turntable: Encyclopedia Ii - Laser Turntable - Technical Details
The laser pickup uses five beams — one on each channel to track that side of the groove, one on each channel to pick up the sound (just...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pathé Records: Encyclopedia Ii - Pathé Records - Pathé Discs
In 1905 they entered the growing field of disc records, at first with single-sided discs with a recording in wax on top of a cement base....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pathé: Encyclopedia Ii - Pathé - Sectors
The sectors in which Pathé operates today are: Cinema: production distribution to theatres and homes the international management of a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Felix The Cat: Encyclopedia Ii - Felix The Cat - Creation
On November 9, 1919, Master Tom, a character resembling Felix, debuted in a Paramount Pictures short entitled "Feline Follies". Produced ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Popular Culture: Encyclopedia Ii - Popular Culture - 18th And 19th Century Popular Culture
The growth of modern industry from the late 18th Century onward led to massive urbanization in many Western countries and the rise of new...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sheet Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Sheet Music - History
Before the 15th century, music was written by hand and preserved in large bound volumes, known as manuscripts. There were several difficu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Quartz: Encyclopedia Ii - Quartz - Varieties
Quartz is one of the world's most common crustal minerals and goes by a bewildering array of different names. The most important distinct...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - High Fidelity: Encyclopedia Ii - High Fidelity - History
The 1920s saw the introduction of electronic amplification, microphones, and the application of quantitative engineering principles to th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sigsaly: Encyclopedia Ii - Sigsaly - Operation
SIGSALY used a random noise mask to encrypt voice conversations which had been encoded by a vocoder. The latter was used both to minimize...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Muzak: Encyclopedia Ii - Muzak - History
Muzak is a trademark name invented in 1922 by Major General George O. Squier when he patented a system for the transmission and distribut...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Psychedelic Shack Album: Encyclopedia Ii - Psychedelic Shack Album - Overview
The album begins with a knock at the door, and the sound of footsteps as a stranger wanders into an unfamiliar location. Finding a phonog...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jazz: Encyclopedia Ii - Jazz - History
Jazz - Roots of jazz. Jazz has roots in the combination of Western and African music traditions, including spirituals, blues and ragtim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mickey Mouse: Encyclopedia Ii - Mickey Mouse - Early Landmarks
Mickey Mouse - First encounter with Black/Peg Leg Pete. The Gallopin' Gaucho was again co-directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, with t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jukebox: Encyclopedia Ii - Jukebox - History
Coin-operated music boxes and player pianos carved out a place for automatic pay-per-tune music in fairgounds, amusement parks and other ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lajos Kossuth: Encyclopedia Ii - Lajos Kossuth - Regent Of Hungary
The crisis came, and he used it to the full. On March 3, 1848, shortly after the news of the revolution in Paris had arrived, in a speech...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music History Of The United States 1900-1940: Encyclopedia Ii - Music History Of The United States 1900-1940 - Jazz
Jazz was more urban than the blues. Relying more on instrumentation, the sound was well-suited for listeners unfamiliar with the genre's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of Australia: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of Australia - Rock And Popular Music
Main article: Australian rock Australia has produced a wide variety of popular and rock music. While many musicians and bands (some notab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kate & Leopold: Encyclopedia Ii - Kate & Leopold - Plot Details
In 1876, Leopold Alexis Elijah Walker Gareth Thomas Mountbatten, Duke of Albany and inventor of the elevator, is a stifled man and dreame...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kinetoscope: Encyclopedia Ii - Kinetoscope - Kinetophone
The Kinetophone was an early attempt by Edision to unite picture and sound in the late 1800s. In the spring of 1895, Edision offered the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jvc: Encyclopedia Ii - Jvc - History
JVC - 1920s - 1960s. JVC was founded in 1927 as "The Victor Company of Japan" as a subsidiary of the United States' leading phonograph ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electricity: Encyclopedia Ii - Electricity - History
Electricity - Ancient. According to Thales of Miletus, writing 600 BC, a form of electricity was known to the Ancient Greeks who found ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gramophone Record: Encyclopedia Ii - Gramophone Record - Basics
The normal commercial disc is engraved with two sound bearing concentric spiral grooves, one on each side of the disc, running from the o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Radio: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Radio - Music Formats
Some well-known music-radio formats are Top 40, Freeform Rock and AOR (Album Oriented Rock). It turns out that most other stations (such ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pickup Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Pickup Music - Magnetic Pickups
Electromagnetic pickups use the principle of variable magnetic reluctance. The pickup consists of a permanent magnet wrapped with many tu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Osmium: Encyclopedia Ii - Osmium - Notable Characteristics
Osmium in a metallic form is extremely dense, blue white, brittle and lustrous even at high temperatures, but proves to be extremely diff...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Industry - History
In the 19th century the music industry was dominated by sheet music publishers. In the United States, the music industry arose in tandem ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fleeming Jenkin: Encyclopedia Ii - Fleeming Jenkin - Early Life
Fleeming Jenkin - Background and childhood. Generally called Fleeming (pronounced "flemming", IPA ['flɛmɪŋ]) Jenkin, after Admiral F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edison New Jersey: Encyclopedia Ii - Edison New Jersey - History
Edison New Jersey - Early history. Edison was originally part of Woodbridge Township and Piscataway Township when settlement commenced ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phonograph Cylinder: Encyclopedia Ii - Phonograph Cylinder - Cylinders Versus Discs
In the era before World War I phonograph cylinders and disc records competed with each other for public favor. The audio fidelity of a so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Industry: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Industry - History
The first stirrings of a music industry came in the mid-to-late 18th century, when performers and composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Moza...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Montan Wax: Encyclopedia Ii - Montan Wax - Uses
It is used for making car and shoe polishes, paints, and phonograph records, and as lubricant for molding, paper and plastics. About a th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lajos Kossuth: Encyclopedia Ii - Lajos Kossuth - Regent Of Hungary
The crisis came, and he used it to the full. On March 3, 1848, shortly after the news of the revolution in Paris had arrived, in a speech...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monaural: Encyclopedia Ii - Monaural - History
While some experiments were made with stereophonic recording and reproduction from the early days of the phonograph in the late 19th cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Western Square Dance: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Western Square Dance - Learning Modern Western Square Dance
Dancers learn the individual square dance calls required to square dance at classes, which are usually taught by square dance callers, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sampling Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Sampling Music - History
Sampling music - Early precedents. In the 1940s, some musique concrète composers utilized portions of other recordings to create new c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Timeline Of Materials Technology: Encyclopedia Ii - Timeline Of Materials Technology - 2nd Millennium
Timeline of materials technology - 18th century. 1738 - William Champion patents a process for the production of metallic zinc by dist...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dictaphone: Encyclopedia Ii - Dictaphone - History
Shortly after Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording sound, in 1877, he thought that the main use for the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diamond Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Diamond Disk - Identifying Diamond Disks
The Diamond Disks can be easily distinguished from early 78 records, as Diamond Disk records are approximately 1/4 inches thick. All Diam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cover Version: Encyclopedia Ii - Cover Version - Tributes Tribute Albums And Cover Albums
Established artists often pay homage to artists or songs that inspired them before they started their careers by recording cover versions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1878: Encyclopedia Ii - 1878 - Events
1878 - January - April. January - Cleopatra's Needle arrives in London January 9 - Humbert I becomes King of Italy January 5 - Battle ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edison Records: Encyclopedia Ii - Edison Records - Mass Produced Cylinders
A notable technological triumph of the Edison Laboratories was devising a method to mass produce pre-recorded phonograph cylinders in mol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Edison: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Edison - Inventor
Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey with the automatic repeater and other improved telegraphic devices, b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angel Records: Encyclopedia Ii - Angel Records - Recording Angel
A recording angel is a traditional figure that watches over people, marking their actions on a tablet for future judgment. Artist Theodor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tin Pan Alley: Encyclopedia Ii - Tin Pan Alley - Origins
In the mid 19th century copyright control on melodies was poorly regulated in the United States, and many competing publishers would ofte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electricity: Encyclopedia Ii - Electricity - History
Electricity - Ancient. According to Thales of Miletus, writing circa 600 BCE, a form of electricity was known to the Ancient Greeks who...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disk: Encyclopedia Ii - Disk - Disc Or Disk?
The divergence in spelling is due in part to the way in which the words originated. Disc came into the English language in the mid-17th c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1877: Encyclopedia Ii - 1877 - Events
1877 - January - April. January 1 - Queen Victoria proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act, introduced by United Kingdom P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Dickson Film Pioneer: Encyclopedia Ii - William Dickson Film Pioneer - Film Innovator
Dickson’s invention, the Kinetoscope, was simple: a strip of several images was passed in front of an illuminated lens and behind a spi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Audio Mastering: Encyclopedia Ii - Audio Mastering - History/overview
Traditionally, Audio Mastering was the process of transferring audio recordings on magnetic tape to a phonograph lathe for the production...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1900s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1900s - Events And Trends
1900s - Technology. Lawrence Hargrave makes the first stable wing design for a heavier-than-air aircraft Orville and Wilbur Wright mak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1870s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1870s - Events And Trends
1870s - Technology. The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. The light bulb was invented. The phonograph is inv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boogie-woogie Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Boogie-woogie Music - Boogie Woogie Origins
The origin of the term boogie-woogie is unknown, according to Webster's Third New International Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Graham Bell: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander Graham Bell - Biography
Born Alexander Bell in Edinburgh, he later adopted the middle name Graham out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family friend. Many c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edison New Jersey: Encyclopedia Ii - Edison New Jersey - History
Edison New Jersey - Early history. Edison was originally part of Woodbridge Township and Piscataway Township when settlement commenced ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Enrico Caruso: Encyclopedia Ii - Enrico Caruso - Life And Career
Born in Naples, Italy, Caruso began his career in that city in 1894. His first big success came in 1902 in Alberto Franchetti's opera "Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Editor: Encyclopedia Ii - Sound Editor - History
Sound editor - Early Talkies. The first sound process to substantially displace silent films in the moviegoing market was the Vitaphone...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Recording: Encyclopedia Ii - Sound Recording - Technology
Sound recording - Mechanical recording. The first devices for recording sound were mechanical in nature. In 1796 a Swiss watchmaker nam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Selectavision: Encyclopedia Ii - Selectavision - How Selectavision Worked
SelectaVision used a special medium known as a Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED). The VideoDisc was a 12 in (305 mm) platter housed in a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Piezoelectricity: Encyclopedia Ii - Piezoelectricity - Applications
Piezoelectric crystals are used in numerous ways: Piezoelectricity - High-voltage sources. Direct piezoelectricity of some substances l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Enrico Caruso: Encyclopedia Ii - Enrico Caruso - Life And Career
Born in Naples, Italy, Caruso began his career in that city in 1894. The first major role that he created came in Giordano's "Fedora" (Mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Edison: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Edison - Middle Career
Thomas Edison - Menlo Park. Edison's major innovation was the Menlo Park research lab, which was built in New Jersey. It was the first ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Reinforcement System: Encyclopedia Ii - Sound Reinforcement System - Signal Path
Generally speaking, sound reinforcement is used in a large format system. The signal path for this type of system is as follows: Signal e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faster-than-light: Encyclopedia Ii - Faster-than-light - Possibility Of Ftl
Faster-Than-Light travel or communication is problematic in a universe that is consistent with Einstein's Theory of Relativity. In a hypo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alexander Graham Bell: Encyclopedia Ii - Alexander Graham Bell - Biography
Born Alexander Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland, he later adopted the middle name Graham out of admiration for Alexander Graham, a family frie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Swing Kids: Encyclopedia Ii - Swing Kids - Counter Culture
Jazz music was offensive to Nazi ideology because it was associated with the American enemy and worse, was often performed by African Ame...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sampling Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Sampling Music - History
Sampling music - Early precedents. In the 1940s, some musique concrète composers utilized portions of other recordings to create new c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George Westinghouse: Encyclopedia Ii - George Westinghouse - Electricity And The War Of Currents
In 1875, Thomas Edison had been a virtual unknown. He had achieved some success with a "multiplex telegraph" system that allowed multiple...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Suzuki Method: Encyclopedia Ii - Suzuki Method - Philosophy
The central belief of Dr. Suzuki, based on the evidence of universal language acquisition, is that all children can (and will) learn from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cover Version: Encyclopedia Ii - Cover Version - Tributes, Tribute Albums And Cover Albums
Established artists often pay homage to artists or songs that inspired them before they started their careers by recording cover versions...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cover Version: Encyclopedia Ii - Cover Version - Covers In Particular Genres
Cover version - Punk. Punk music is known for deconstructing classic rock or pop songs by reinterpreting them in punk form. Bands like ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faster-than-light: Encyclopedia Ii - Faster-than-light - Apparent Ftl
Faster-than-light - Moving spot of light. Processes which do not transmit information may move faster than light. A good example is a b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Faster-than-light: Encyclopedia Ii - Faster-than-light - Terminology
In the context of this article, FTL actually refers to the transmission of information or matter faster than c, a constant equal to the s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electricity: Encyclopedia Ii - Electricity - Electric Power
Electric power is the rate at which electrical energy is produced or consumed, and is measured in watts (symbol: W). A fossil-fuel or nuc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edison New Jersey: Encyclopedia Ii - Edison New Jersey - Demographics
Edison is one of the more diverse townships in New Jersey. This is heavily due to an influx of Asian immigrants during the past 25 years....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boogie-woogie Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Boogie-woogie Music - Legacy Of Boogie-woogie
The popularity of the Carnegie Hall concerts meant work for many of the fellow boogie players and also led to the adaptation of boogie-wo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cover Version: Encyclopedia Ii - Cover Version - Covers In Particular Genres
Cover version - Punk. Punk music is known for deconstructing classic rock or pop songs by reinterpreting them in punk form. Bands like ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edison New Jersey: Encyclopedia Ii - Edison New Jersey - Features
The town of Edison is home to the Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Museum. Oak Tree Road in Edison and Iselin, New Jersey is known f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boogie-woogie Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Boogie-woogie Music - Boogie-woogie In Carnegie Hall
Boogie-woogie came to widespread public attention in 1937 and 1938, in the From Spirituals to Swing concerts in Carnegie Hall promoted by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Audio Mastering: Encyclopedia Ii - Audio Mastering - Bass Punch Kick Drum Bass Drum Frequencies Waveform
Usually the loudest sound on a pop music recording. The physical punch of the sound waves the listener feels is caused by the short burst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Audio Mastering: Encyclopedia Ii - Audio Mastering - Rms In Music Average Loudness Punch
The RMS in audio production terminology is a measure of average loudness and is found widely in software tools. A smaller RMS number mean...   » Read the article