1907
Frances Densmore Begins Recording American Indian Music for the Smithsonian
1907
John Lomax Begins Collecting and Recording Cowboy Songs
1900
Carl Stumpf Initiates the Berlin Phonogramm-Archiv
1894-95
Edison & W.K.L. Wickson Make First Talking Movie Using Kinetophone
1890
Alice Cunningham Fletcher Records Omaha Indian Music
1890
Jesse Fewkes Makes First Anthropological Field Recordings
1890
Compagnie du Théâtrophonelater Commercializes Binaural Sound
1889
Ludwig Koch Makes First Bird Song Recording
1887
Emile Berliner Patents Gramophone
1887
Edison Creates New Phonograph Which Uses Wax-Based Cylinders