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Thomas Edison created many inventions, but his favorite was the phonograph. While working on improvements to the telegraph and the telephone, Edison figured out a way to record sound on tinfoil-coated cylinders. In 1877, he created a machine with two needles: one for recording and one for playback

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12 inch records are introduced

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The first radio broadcast was in 1920 in Pittsburgh

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The cassette tape is developed by the Dutch company Royal Phillips and first used in 1963.

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The first workable digital compact disc device, the precursor on now ubiquitous CD/DVDs, was invented in the late 1960s by the American physicist James Russell.

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In 1997, developer Tomislav Uzelac of Advanced Multimedia Products invented the first successful MP3 player, the AMP MP3 Playback Engine.

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Apple introduces the iPod, a portable music player, in 2001.

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Spotify was launched to tackle the issues of music piracy, offering a seemingly infinite, catalog of music for audiences to listen to. Rather than get paid per download, artists would receive part of a royalty payment each time their song was streamed.