Headphones
Information and communication
technology has brought us to feel the experience of using headphones. As we can
see nowadays, young people usually wearing headphones wherever
they go. The thing seemed to be their new accessories. We can find many types,
many brands and many colors of headphones that attract buyers to have at least
1! But, do we know when headphones were existed? Who created headphones?
And what is headphones looks like in
the early years? Let us go deeper!
Headphone
has given many benefits to us. It can be as our entertainment equipment as we
can listen to the songs without distracts anyone from doing their activity.
Plus, headphones play an important role in career such as DJ and radio
speaker.
Back to
the first creation of headphone in 1881, headphones are only being used by
telephone operators. It doesn't related much to music plus it was a particular
earpiece that user have to put on their shoulder that weighed about 10 pounds.
How it looks like? Let me show you.
Picture : http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/history-of-headphones/
We are moving to 1890 - 1930 where
headphone has inventions. The stick beats were existed after the presence of
Electrophone that was made-up in Britain over 1890s. This type of headphone
allowed listener to hear a very big sound on a stage miles away. They are
connected to a live performance even though they are not there. The headphones
that are similar to stethoscopes are very famous and become a trend in those
early years.
Picture : http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/history-of-headphones/
Later than, there is Ernest Mercadier, a French engineer who created
the very first in-ear headphone during 1891. He also granted a patent for his
creation. The in-ear headphones are being used by telephonist.
Years by years, great people are determined to create more
invention towards headphone. In 1910 - 1950, Nathaniel Baldwin invented the
first pair of modern headphone just on his kitchen table. How great is that?
Plus, a private investor has agreed to buy more that 100 pairs of the
particular headphone and made Ernest Mercadier became a rich man in a blink of
an eye but somehow Mercadier doesn't came out with an idea to patented
it.
Picture : http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/history-of-headphones/
And to the present years the phenomena of Beats by Dr. Dre has
become widely known all over the world. Beats by Dr. Dre can reached for about
1000 per headphones.
All sources and picture : http://coolmaterial.com/roundup/history-of-headphones/
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