Technology, Business and the

Market
From Phonograph to Streaming
Edison Phonograph
c.1898
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
 So-called ‘wind-
up’ mechanical
gramophone

Flat discs, first developed

by Eric Berliner (1851-
1929) ,were mass
produced and totally
replaced cylinders
Howard H Scott developed the
Long Playing Record at
Columbia in the 1940s
 Fender Precision
Bass and Fender
Stratocaster Guitars
designed by Leo
Fender (1909-1991)
1958 Pye Radiogram
• By the mid-1950s the 12 inch; 33and a third
rpm; vinyl disc had become the standard,
long-playing (approx. 90 minutes of music per
side) record; alongside 45 rpm ‘singles’ and 45
rpm so called ‘extended play’ records
containing around four tracks.
• The album covers of the long playing records
provided an opportunity for artistic cover
designs.
Sgt. Pepper album cover by Peter Blake
‘Customised’ gold iPod shuffle - £10,000
In recent years there has
been a revival of interest
in vinyl discs – although
still only a tiny share of
the market.