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By: Laurie-Anne Côté DavidBy: Laurie-Anne Côté David

Information about the inventor

• Name: Elisha Gray• Province or Territory: Ohio (U.S.A)• Town or village: Barnesville• Profession: Electrical engineer• Date of birth: August 2, 1835 (- January

21, 1901)

M.Gray is born here!

Barnesville!

Information about the invention

Year of the invention: 1876Description of the invention: A synthesizer

(or synthesiser) is an electronic instrument capable of producing a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies. It looks like a piano, but it have many key functions. (Mostly looking useless..)

Functionality of the invention: Making electronic sounds (Music, actually)

History of the invention

• The very first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray, who is best known for his development of a telephone prototype .

• After that, many companies buy it and start to sell it under different forms, sounds and prototypes.

• At the beginning of the 90’s, the invention was transformed to something more easy, using software for the PC

Utility of the invention today

• Never heard of Electronic Music?Music Synthesizer can be used for

video games sounds, movies sounds effect and many others things.

Sound Demo Noir - Solitude By the Window

(Piano Version)

Prizes?

• No, the inventor didn’t even receive a price for the music synthesizer. Peoples just don’t care about the inventor, don’t they?

(The invention’s not really really important, so anybody care about it)

Today!

• Now the music synthesizer’s everywhere. In movies, videogames and I pass. The evolution of the invention contain so many step that I can’t write everything. But if I had to say it in few words…Many sounds were added, so many..