Frances Abernathy
In the video Howard Goodall's Big Bangs 5 Recorded Sound, Howard Goodall goes into depth on the different advances of recorded sound. The first advance of recorded sound happened when Thomas Alva Edison made the first device that could record what you said or sung. In 1877 Edison created a recording of Mary Had a Little Lamb, he called this device that you could record things off of the phonograph. The phonograph was further advanced when in the 1880s wax cylinders were made for recording so you could record again and again. The phonograph had very many flaws, but it was the first invention that actually could record, may it be a good recording or bad one. To produce recordings it could …show more content…
It enabled people to record and produce disks much faster. With the gramophone you could record a piece on a master disk and then an unlimited number of copies could be made. The disk used with the gramophone was similar to the modern CD today. The original rubber disks were changed to be made with a new material from crushed beetles. The Gramophone Company became a very well known brand for recording. Enrico Caruso became one of the most world famous singers of this time. He became very rich due to his singing and recording. Caruso was the first person to become largely famous due to just recordings. One of the gramophone’s flaws was the struggle to capture the sound of the instruments playing during performances. Because some of the instruments were to low for the gramophone to pick up, soon a new device was …show more content…
It enabled people to record and produce disks much faster. With the gramophone you could record a piece on a master disk and then an unlimited number of copies could be made. The disk used with the gramophone was similar to the modern CD today. The original rubber disks were changed to be made with a new material from crushed beetles. The Gramophone Company became a very well known brand for recording. Enrico Caruso became one of the most world famous singers of this time. He became very rich due to his singing and recording. Caruso was the first person to become largely famous due to just recordings. One of the gramophone’s flaws was the struggle to capture the sound of the instruments playing during performances. Because some of the instruments were to low for the gramophone to pick up, soon a new device was