Audio is hot right now, with more listeners than ever tuning in (1) to podcasts and other services. Streaming audio is now an industry worth more than $12 billion, thanks to regular yearly growth, and podcasting alone attracts more than 100 million monthly users in the US. Understanding where this market is headed (and how to capitalize on it) means understanding where we came from. We’ve traced out the history of sound recording technology and illustrated the major milestones so you can see how far we’ve come.
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From Wax Casts to Podcasts: The Evolution of Audio
Tracing the history of sound, from 1877 to today.
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- Audio and Podcasting Fact Sheet
- History of the Cylinder Phonograph
- The Early Gramophone
- First public radio broadcast, January 13, 1910
- The Coming Of The Crooners
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- Transistor Radios
- 1935: AUDIO RECORDER USES LOW-COST MAGNETIC TAPE
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- MP3s
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