Prof. Paul Lansky, Friend to RadioHead and others

• --whatever happened in the industrial revolution that enabled them to make saxophones, metal flutes, etc wasn't that about 1840 or so
• --the valve horn! 1810
• --wound strings, 1783 (I made that up)
• --recording, about 1910?
• --digital signal representation, early 1960s
• --complete convergence of audio and computing technology, early 1990s
• --pythagorus discovered the comma!!!
• --tape , late 1940's
• --sound on film, 1930
• --electric guitar, 1952
• --vocoder, 1930's
• --MIDI 1983
• --supertitles at the opera, 1988
• --the LP, 1953
• --stereo, 1954
• --the CD 1984
• --Fourier 1800
• --Helmholtz 1859