Record

Record is to make a record of additions to a collection like recording a song, record a sale on a card register, records of world champions etc.

Phonograph:
Thomas Edison who is an American scientist was more known for his electric light bulb which he introduced to the world in 1879. He invented phonograph in 1877 which was the most common device for playing recorded sound during the late 1870s until the late 1980s. He form
the principle of recording and reproducing sound between May and July in 1877 as a byproduct of his efforts to 'play back' recorded telegraph messages. He even automated speech sounds from transmitting by telephone.

On November 21, 1877 he announced his invention of the first phonograph which was a device for recording and replaying sound and demonstrated the device for the first time on November 29.

Home phonograph:
It was invented by Thomas Edison. It was one of the first phonographs for home use, being introduced for sale originally in December of 1896 and were manufactured until 1901.


Shellac Record Player:
Shellac record Player began in 1898 in Hanover, Germany.


Modern Record Player:
Modern record players can be either portable or built into other systems. They usually features digital readouts and controls for volume or speed. It became popular after World War II.


Open Reel Tape Recorder:
Open Reel Tape Recorder is also known as a Reel-to-reel. It is the form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the recording medium is held on a reel, rather than being securely contained within a cassette. Open Reel Tape Recorder was developed in the late 1940s by American audio engineer Jack Mullin with assistance from Bing Crosby where they met during the time of demonstrating his recorders at MGM Records in Hollywood.

Open Reel Tape Recorder was also used in early tape drives for data storage on mainframe computers, video tape machines, and later for high quality analog and digital audio recorders as early as the late 1940s, up until modern day studios where it is still in use.


Multitrack Recorder:
Multitracking is also known as multitracking or tracking for short term. This started with a guitarist, Les Paul in the late 1940s who experimented with over dubbing. During that time Capital Records released a record with Paul playing 8 different parts of an electric guitar. After that during late 1950s it was brainstormed by Ross Snyder, Ampex's manager. Originally, it is a method of sound recording that allows for the separate recording of multiple sound sources to create a cohesive whole.

It is one of the most common method of recording popular music during that time. In the 2000s, multitracking software for computers became widely used and quite popular.


Audio Cassette:
Audio Cassette are frequently referred as compact cassette, cassette tape, cassette or tap. Cassette is a french word meaning 'little box'. it is a cassette to store music and audio sounds.

The audio cassette was invented in 1962 by the Philips company. The early made cassettes were not quite popular and not good but was recognisable during 1970s as it became very popular to listen music.


Digital Audio Tape (DAT):
Digital Audio Tape (DAT) is a signal recording and playback medium developed by Sony and introduced in 1987. In appearance it is quite similar to a compact audio cassette with a smaller size.The technology for the medium itself is derived from video recorders and the 4 mm tape, cassette and the rotary head configuration is quite similar to the 8 mm video cassette from Sony.


CD:
CD is called as Compact Disc. It is an optical disk/disc with a small, portable, round medium made of molded polymer for electronically recording, storing, and playing back audio, video, text, and other information in digital form.

It was invented by James Russell in 1965. The compact disk did not become recognisable until it was mass manufactured by Philips in 1980.


MP3:
Mp3 is commonly referred as MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3. It is very popular for music on the web. MP3 is a digital music format which allows CD tracks to be reduced to around a tenth of their normal size without a significant loss of quality. It involves only audio compression.

Dieter Seitzer and Karlheinz Brandenburg are the two person frequently mentioned for the development of MP3.
They started working on it in 1979 but were invented in 1995. Later in 1997, the first successful mp3 player were brought in media called the 'AMP MP3 Playback Engine'.