In 1876 the player piano was invented; this piano had a punched paper with fifty eight holes which moved over a tracker ball. This instrument was the first one used to store music that could be produced in large amount. Unfortunately, these pianos were too costly for personal use and people only heard them played at bars, theaters or expensive restaurants. According to records from the U.S. Supreme Court, there were thousands or piano rolls and pianos manufactured for mass entertainment. In 1877, Tomas Edison invented the phonograph cylinder which quickly expanded and gave birth to commercial recording.
Some of those economic events were the oil industry, blue jeans, and the first commercial barbed wire. Some political events were that the Congress created the Department of Justice, British Colombia became part of Canada, and the Republican Elephant. And finally some social events that led to the invention of the telephone were that the Congress adopted The Fifteenth Amendment, The congress passed The Indian Appropriation Act, and the Third Force Act. In 1870 John D. Rockefeller formed te Standard Oil of Ohio Company, which helped the economy of the country a lot. By 1890 Standard Oil of Ohio Company controlled 88% of the refined oil flows in the United States and the company made John D. Rockefeller the richest man in modern history.
This progress led Edison to risk that a telephone message could also be recorded in a similar fashion. He tested with a diaphragm which had a stamping point and was held against rapidly-moving paraffin paper. The speaking vibrations made indentations in the paper (Stross, 2010). Edison later changed the paper to a metal cylinder with tin foil wrapped around it. The machine had two diaphragm-and-needle units, one for recording, and one for playback.
1834 – English man William Horner's Daedalum, essentially a spinning disc and a spinnic cylinder in which a strip of sequential images are viewed. Horner's name for the device “the wheel of the devil”, which perhaps explains why it did not become popular optical toy until it was renamed in USA and UK in 1860 and renamed more positively as the Zoetrope “the wheel of life” by American developer William F. Lincoln. 1877 – Frenchman Charles – Emile Reynaud's praxinoscope improved clarity by viewing the sequence by viewing the sequence of drawing from mirrors mounted in the centre of the
Kodak has been known for its pioneering technology and innovative marketing. The company successes have been focused on four principles: mass production at low cost, international distribution, extensive advertising, and a focus on the customer. The history of Eastman Kodak Company began in 1880 when George Eastman, founder of the company, in a rented loft of a building in Rochester, N.Y. began commercial production of dry plates for photography. The name “Kodak” was born in 1888 when the Kodak camera was marketed with the slogan, “You press the button, and we do the rest." In 1892, the company became Eastman Kodak Company of New York and introduced the first Brownie camera brought hobby photography within financial reach to the consumer markets.
Pre-Christian drawings of the early flute appear on Roman artifacts. Additional works of art, including two Etruscan reliefs which date from the second and third centuries B.C., clearly showed cross flutes being played. Theobald Boehm, a German flute maker and musicin, developed the first cylindrical metal flute in 1832. This was the most widely used model in the 20th century. The cylindrical Boehm flute is made of metal or wood and has thirteen or more tone holes controlled by a system of padded keys which Boehm created.
While in Boston working with the deaf, Alexander Bell created the microphone (Bell’s Telephone). Alexander Bell was working on a sound transmission for the deaf when he unexpectedly discovered an electrical current that could react to a human’s voice (Telephony). The discovery led Bell to invent the electrical speech machine on March 10, 1876 (Bell’s Telephone)(Telephony). The electric current machine later became known as the Telephone. Telephone is made up of two Greek words meaning ‘far’ and ‘sound’ (Modern Telephones).
Photography and the Industrial Revolution During the Industrial Revolution, a factory driven time period and move away from beauty, Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer of “The Hand of Man”, showed how something so dark and mechanical like the locomotive train could be transformed into a work of art and beauty using ones own creativeness and artistic ability. Alfred Stieglitz, an American photographer and modern art promoter, was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864. Growing up, he was trained as an engineer in Germany where he would then move to New York in 1890 to try and prove that photography was an acceptable work of art during this time period. While in New York, he joined many camera clubs and held exhibitions throughout the city to show his work (Minneapolis Institute of Arts). In 1903, Stieglitz created a magazine called “Camera Work” that was completely devoted to photography and contained only photographic images in it (Greenough, Sarah).
It started before the Romantic period, but it become popular with German composers of the nineteenth century. The first generally accepted example of a song cycle is Ludwig van Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, opus 98. It considered being the first true song cycle by a major composer. He composed in 1816, and it can be seen as the first real song cycle by a great composer in the sense that it is a number of songs by voice and piano that are clearly related with each other. The six songs of the cycle flow into each other, the tonal structure is very clear, and the poetic structure is also clear.
Ships at sea heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible. In 1926, with the arrival of "talkies" many musical short films were produced. There are a lot of things about Music Videos, from clips from “The Beatles “ songs, to MTV creating VH1 or Video Hits one, music videos have truly changed during the years. A music video in 2005 had bad quality compared to the ones in 2013; these are because of better filming cameras, and improved editing software. 2005 saw the launch of the website YouTube, which made the viewing of online video much faster and easier; Google Videos, Yahoo!