• Record is an item or collection of data.

It is the process of collecting data which may be visually,

written etc and transforming it into a new

form by recording.

It can be divided into the subgroups,

Audio, Print, Film and Web-based.

Print is one form of Record. This could be written in a book, diary or even a newspaper.

Started around 3000BC in Mesopotamia with the duplication of images. The use of round “cylinder seals” for rolling an impress onto clay tablets. They are the most common works of art to survive.

In 175AD, China – the emperor commanded that the six main classics of Confucianism be carved into stone. AD 750-768: The invention of printing on paper is a

striking achievement of Buddhists in East Asia, Korea who takes the lead. The worlds earliest known printed document is a sutra on a sheet of paper.

AD868: The first printed book is a scroll, 16feet long and a feet high, formed of sheets of paper glued together at their edges. It is the worlds first printed illusion, depicting an enthroned Buddha surrounded by holy attendants.

Movable type 11th century: Movable type is a necessary step before printing. It can become an efficient medium for distributing information.

Here are just a few examples of the development over the years and has become what it is today.

Audio is sound that is capable of being heard. It started from humble beginnings and eventually progressed on a wide scale.

Thomas Alvi Edison succeeded in recovering Mary's Little Lamb from a strip of tinfoil wrapped around a spinning cylinder, whilst working in his lab. 1877

Marconi achieves wireless radio transmission from Italy to America. 1895

Enrico Caruso is heard in the first ever live broadcast from Metropolitan, NYC 1910

The Radio Corporation of America was founded. 1919

The first commercial AM radio broadcast is made by KDKA Pittsburgh, PA. 1921

Walt Disney's "Fantasia" is released, with eight-track stereophonic sound. 1940

Ampex produces a portable tape recorder.The first commercial 2-track stereo tapes are released. 1954

Dolby proposes a 5-channel surround-sound scheme for home theatre systems. 1990

This is just a few examples of the dramatic change in our technology! We can see that audio has had huge discoveries and developments.

In 1842, Charles Babbage invented an analytical engine for performing and storing calculations. This is when the age of computer began. In 1943, almost exactly one hundred years later, the US army switched on the first computer. The importance of communications meant that the recording of sound was one of the first applications in which computer research was devoted to.

In 1950, Richard W. Hamming published information about error detection and correction codes and two years later the "Reed-Solomon" Codes for encoding and reading CD's were published. Without either the modern CD would not work.

In 1958 the laser was invented and digital technology was on the brink of revolutionising sound recording and reproduction.

Toward the end of the 1970’s Sony and Philips entered into collaboration on compact disc technology and the standards of 44.1 kHz sampling rate, 16 bit audio sound, disc size and maximum playing time were agreed upon. Soon, with their products ready, the two companies parted and Compact Disc technology was revealed to the world. By 1990, worldwide sales of the CD had reached 1 billion and had overtaken those of the cassette tape.

Here are a few examples of the development of web-based recording. We can see that it has had a tremendous change and vast improvements.