
Music timeline 1860-1949
- 1860 : Eduard-Leon Scott invents the phonautograph and makes the first visual recording of sound.
- 1867 : The first collection of "Slave Songs of the United States" is published
- 1876 : Thomas Watson, Edison's assistant, is the first person to listen to noise (on the first telephone test line) for pleasure.
- 1877 : Thomas Edison invents sound recording, and a phonograph to play sound recorded on cylinders
- 1880 : The tango is born in Buenos Aires.
- 1885 : Benjamin Franklin Keith and Edward Franklin Albee set up a nation-wide chain of vaudeville theaters.









