ALL EARS: HOW WE LISTENED TO MUSIC THROUGH THE DECADES

1887 Gramophone

Emile Berliner, a German immigrant who settled in Washington DC, created the gramophone, the mechanical predecessor to the record player

1948 Long play records

Long play records, which played at 33⅓rpm, were made of vinyl and easily mass produced, replacing brittle old 78rpm discs

1963 Cassette tapes

A few inches wide de and half-an-inch thick, the cassette te tape was invented ed by Dutch company Phillips. s. Blank tapes gave anyone the ability ty to record audio themselves

1982 Compact disc (CDs)

Phillips and Sony came together to launch CDs, which allowed you to skip straight to the song you wanted w to hear 2001 iPod

Apple’s firstgeneration iPod, d, with its physically ally movable scroll wheel and ability ity to hold up to 1,000 000 songs, was unveiled by Steve Jobs in California

2008 08 Streaming

g Swedish music usic streaming giant, iant, Spotify S was developed as a response to the he growing g piracy y problem p in the music industry. It now has 422m global users