Previous Page: Columbia Broadcasting Service engineers found an old machine in the corner of their workshop that was lying there and gathering dust. They carried out experimentation with the old machine until they found a viable speed was attained through continuous experiments. Soon after CBS developed the 33 1/3 Long playing record what we know today as albums. With the development of the 33 1/3 rpm recording, Columbia also developed a new groove dimensions for the Long playing record which gave an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio using the new flexible plastic substance known as vinyl which was revealed back in the late 1920s. CBS idea of sound on separate discs was highly important for the sound to be of a continuous nature. However, it was Fred Gaisberg visited a young mechanic who was making clockwork machinery hoping that it performed it duties as a sewing machine, indeed, that idea became futile. Instead, it was found to be an idealistic useful technology suitable for the gramophones as it rotated at a speed of 78 rpm. The inventor of this monstrosity was a mechanic by the name of Eldridge Johnson who overnight suddenly moved up into the millionaire bracket due to an invention misadventure of a sewing machine that did not work as it was originally meant to be. |