1877

This marks the beginning of a completely new era of sound recording.
For the first time, voices, music and everyday sounds can be preserved permanently.
The earliest recordings are made on cylinders covered with tinfoil, later on wax cylinders.
The phonograph is considered one of the most important milestones in the history of technology.
It made sound storable and repeatable for the very first time.
In the decades that followed, many new sound carriers and playback devices evolved from this invention.
The path led from the cylinder to the shellac disc, then to the record, tape, cassette and digital media.
The phonograph therefore stands at the very beginning of modern audio technology.
It marks the start of a development that still shapes the way we listen today.