In 1901 the victor company released a record player called the red seal and it played ten inch vinyl records.
Inventor of vinyl.
However no really useful purpose for pvc was found until waldo semon came along and made pvc a better product.
These records were noted for their low quality playback but with the great depression and world war ii vinyl was an affordable material.
Let s look at timeline of events that make up the history of vinyl records.
The phonautograph was a device that could record sound and make a printout of the sound waves but could not play music.
One attempt at this was in 1951 when inventor ewing dunbar nunn founded the label audiophile records which released a series of 78 rpm mastered albums that were microgroove and pressed on vinyl as opposed to traditional 78s with their shellac composition and wider 3 mil sized grooves.
The device had to be operated by hand and played seven inch rubber discs.
Vinyl records were first introduced in 1930 by rca.
Public domain born in 1810 regnault was a french chemist and an early trailblazer in thermodynamics.
This series came in heavy manilla envelopes and began with a jazz album ap 1 and was soon followed by other ap numbers up through about ap 19.
Rca and columbia records both began working with vinyl technology.
1857 léon scott patented the phonautograph invented by édouard léon scott de martinville.
Semon had been quoted as saying people thought of pvc as worthless back then circa 1926.
Friedrich klatte became the first inventor to receive a patent for pvc.
The competition between the two companies led to fast advances in the technology.