Who invented the first lp

The commercial public would not be able to consume and listen to sturdier, lengthier LPs for another 15 years. First, it had to deal with political and economic misery. Cue the applause track.

When Columbia was finally freed from geopolitical conflict and able to resolve the LP's previous technical difficulties - pickups that were too heavy, grooves that were too wide, playback times that were too short, and audio fidelity that was too crappy - everything changed.

Eventual Columbia president Goddard Lieberson introduced the label's masterful LP evolution at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in , and the commercially available long-playing record went supernova. New vinyl manufacturing plants continue to pop up, some recommissioning Soviet-era record presses to help meet the growing demand. In the year , a brilliant French inventor by the name of Edouard-Leon Scott, created a specialist device which utilized a vibrating pen which graphically represented sounds, onto small paper discs.

This device was known as a Phonautograph, and it was primarily created to help us get a better understanding of the characteristics of sound. In , Edison took this concept and turned it into a machine that was capable of replaying the sounds that it recorded. The device utilized a stylus that was designed to cut grooves of sound onto cylinders and discs made of tinfoil. A little over a decade later, German-born US inventor Emile Berliner patented the very first vinyl record player — the Gramophone.

This device had to be manually operated at 70 RPM and it functioned by playing a rubber vulcanite disc, 7 inches in size with small lateral grooves cut into its exterior. Over the next 13 years, vinyl records would undergo a series of material alterations and formatting changes, until , where the Victor Company released its Red Seal line, capable of playing vinyl records in the form of 10 inch, 78 RPM records.

In terms of formatting, the 78 RPM format proved to be the most superior for the next 47 years. Prior to this old gramophone records were typically made from shellac , which comes from the secretion of a tree-dwelling bug found in Thailand and India.

In , the LP record burst on to the scene when the soon-to-be president of Columbia Records Goddard Lieberson introduced it to the market.

Of course, the new, durable and longer playing vinyl material was a huge success and the rest, as they say, is history. The Phonautograph - A beast of a machine. Prior to this, there was an ongoing battle for the music market. In , modern-day engineers converted some of his paper graphs into actual sound, which are now thought to be the earliest known recordings of sound. Shortly after this in , Thomas Edison invented the phonograph which, unlike the phonautograph, could both record and play sound and was cylindrical in shape.

This was later superseded by the 'gramophone record', a round disc created by Emile Berliner, who named his system the "gramophone", distinguishing it from Edison's wax cylinder "phonograph".