Other Milestones
—- 1914, ASCAP is founded to enforce the 1909 copyright act.
—- 1917, “Livery Stable Blues” is recorded and labeled as “jazz” music. In 1919, Gennett Record Company begins to produce laterally cut records and gets sued by Victor. Joined by other small labels, such as Okeh, Vocalian, and Compo, Gennett defeated Victor in 1921 on the basis that producing a laterally cut record was public domain. They defended their triumph again in 1922 when Victor appealed the earlier decision. All of you independent record label fans out there better raise up that fist and give proper respect to the four labels the laid the ground work for independents everywhere.
—- 1917 through 1925 saw the inception of radio as a form of entertainment and the beginning of marketing a band and selling records in a manner we think of as common today. In 1925, electrically recorded discs go on sale. The new recording process makes it possible to record an entire symphony piece instead of just a few minutes at a time. Motion pictures now have sound as well.
—- 1926, 16-inch shellac discs come to be, at the new speed of 33-1/3 rpm. Later that year, Charles Brush sells the first piezo-electric featherweight stylus.
—- 1928, Georg Neumann starts his own company in Berlin. Their only product is the CMV3 “Neumann Bottle” valve condenser microphone. That same year John Baird develops an early form of mechanical television and successfully records moving images and sound to a “Phonovision Wax Disc”.
—-1931, EMI studios hires Alan Blumlein to install its very own electrical recording system, eliminating EMI’s need to pay a royalty to Western Electric. Blumlein will go on to patent binaural recording. Tchad Blake, head to England now to pay your respects! In Germany, Fritz Pfleumer begins building the first magnetic tape recorder. Just two years earlier he applied for a patent for applying magnetic powders to stripe paper or film (this is the same year Neumann is created, 1928).
—- 1935, the first public demonstration of the “Magnetophone” using plastic based tape. A four years later, 1939, the wire recorder is invented and sold to the military.
—- 1941, magnetic recording makes a huge leap in quality with the invention of high frequency biasing.
—- 1944, 3M begins tape coating experiments in the U.S.
—- 1948, the very first two Ampex model 200 tape machines are delivered to the Bing Crosby Show, along with 3M Scotch 111 gamma ferric oxide coated acetate tape.
Notice how much faster things start to happen…