The telephone seems to be one of those ideas that was floating around in the ether at the time, and it is my view that each inventor developed the work independently. Both Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray used liquid transmitters in their experiments with voice transmission over wire. Some scholars consider Gray the true inventor of the telephone. Our story begins with the Musical Telegraph.Įlisha Gray, co-founder of the Western Electric Company, is perhaps most well known as a developer of a prototype telephone. It will also explore the ways radios and the signal and sounds they receive and emit have been used by electronic musicians and composers in the creation of new music. This series on the music of radio will explore the ways telegraphy, telephony and radio have impacted the creation of electronic music from the late 19th century and onwards into the 20th and 21st. Electricity opened up new worlds of sound beginning in the 19th century. Many of the same breakthroughs and devices invented by electrical engineers for communicating in morse code, telephone and radio were adapted for use by musicians.
The history of electronic music is intimately tied up with the history of radio and telecommunications.
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