TECnology Hall of Fame Products Not Eligible (Already Inducted)

  • 1857 Phonautograph - first audio recorder (Edouard de Martinville)
  • 1877 Carbon Microphone (Edison, Berliner)
  • 1877 Thomas Edison cylinder phonograph
  • 1887 Emile Berliner disk recorder
  • 1898 Telegraphone wire recorder - Valdemar Poulsen
  • 1906 Triode vacuum tube - Lee de Forest
  • 1913 Regenerative feedback - Edwin Armstrong
  • 1915 First audio filter/EQ circuit - George Campbell/AT&T
  • 1915 First practical audio amplifier - Harold Arnold/Western Electric
  • 1916 First Condenser Mic - E.C. Wente/Bell Labs
  • 1918 Superheterodyne Circuit - Edwin Armstrong
  • 1920 Theremin - Leon Theremin
  • 1925 Electrical Recording - Western Electric/Bell Labs
  • 1925 Modern dynamic loudspeaker - GE Labs/Rice & Kellogg
  • 1926 Vitaphone talking picture system - Bell Labs
  • 1926 Western Electric 555 compression driver – Wente/Thuras
  • 1928 Decibel unit - Ralph V. Hartley/Bell Labs
  • 1928 Neumann CMV3 - 1st mass-produced condenser mic
  • 1928 Western Electric 618A dynamic microphone
  • 1929 Nyquist Theorem - digital audio sampling foundation
  • 1930 Bass-reflex loudspeaker patent - Bell Labs
  • 1931 RCA Model 44 ribbon mic
  • 1931 Stereo patent - Alan Blumlein
  • 1933 Fletcher-Munson Loudness Curves (Bell Labs)
  • 1935 AEG K-1 Magnetophon - first tape recorder
  • 1935 Lansing/Shearer Horn
  • 1937 Lansing Iconic studio monitor (James B. Lansing)
  • 1938 Western Electric 639A ribbon/dynamic mic (Altec "birdcage" mic)
  • 1939 PCM patent - Alec Harley Reeves
  • 1940 AC Tape Bias - J. Von Braunmuhl & Dr. W. Weber
  • 1940 Shure Unidyne I single-element unidirectional mic
  • 1940 VU Meter (Bell Labs)
  • 1940 Walt Disney Studios/RCA - Fantasound stereo film playback for “Fantasia”
  • 1942 Anechoic Chamber – Leo Beranek
  • 1944 Altec Lansing 604 Duplex speaker
  • 1945 Altec Voice of the Theatre A7 loudspeaker system
  • 1947 3M's first tape: Scotch 100 black oxide paper tape
  • 1947 JBL D-130 - 1st flat-wire, 4-inch voice coil speaker
  • 1948 Ampex 200A tape recorder
  • 1948 Tannoy Dual Concentric™ speaker
  • 1949 Neumann U47 switchable-pattern condenser mic
  • 1951 Pulse Techniques Pultec EQP-1 program equalizer
  • 1951 RCA BA-6A variable-Mu compressor
  • 1953 AKG C12 - first remote controlled multi-pattern mic
  • 1953 Hammond Model B3 tonewheel organ
  • 1954 Decca Tree Mic Technique, Decca Studios
  • 1954 Tape Echo Slap - Sam Phillips, Sun Records
  • 1954 Wurlitzer Electric Piano
  • 1955 Ampex Sel-Sync 8-track recorder
  • 1955 Sony C-37A tube mic (first Japanese condenser mic)
  • 1956 Ampex VRX-1000 - first VTR
  • 1956 Neumann 1st stereo cutting lathe
  • 1957 beyerdynamic M160 ribbon microphone
  • 1957 EMT 140 first electro-mechanical plate reverb
  • 1957 ITT-Cannon XLR connector
  • 1957 RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer, 1st programmable music synth
  • 1958 Auratone 5C Super Sound Cubes reference monitors
  • 1958 Cannon XLR connector
  • 1958 Nagra III field sync tape recorder
  • 1958 Telefunken Ela M 251 microphone
  • 1959 Echoplex tape delay effect
  • 1959 Fairchild 670 compressor (Rein Narma)
  • 1960 Neumann U67 tube microphone
  • 1960 Sennheiser MD-421 microphone
  • 1963 Mellotron tape-loop keyboard instrument
  • 1964 Electret mic patent - Gerhard Sessler/James West - Bell Labs
  • 1964 Modular Moog synthesizer — Robert Moog
  • 1964 Studer J-37 4-track recorder
  • 1965 Fender Rhodes Electric Piano (Harold Rhodes)
  • 1965 Shure SM57 dynamic microphone
  • 1965 Teletronix LA-2A tube compressor
  • 1966 Dolby A-Type noise reduction
  • 1966 Georg Neumann Company 48-volt phantom power
  • 1966 Neumann KM84 small diaphragm condenser mic
  • 1966 Shure SM58
  • 1966 Wah Wah Pedal - Brad Plunket, Warwick/Thomas Organ Co.
  • 1967 Crown DC-300 power amp
  • 1967 Neumann U87 studio microphone
  • 1967 Time-Delay Spectrometry (Richard "Dick" Heyser)
  • 1968 3M M56 2”16 track recorder (first 16-track)
  • 1968 API 550A equalizer (Saul Walker)
  • 1968 Electro-Voice RE20 microphone
  • 1968 Shure Vocal Master PA system
  • 1968 Universal Audio/UREI 1176 Peak Limiter
  • 1969 George Massenburg ITI ME-230 parametric equalizer
  • 1969 TEAC 1/4-inch 4-track recorder
  • 1970 ARP 2600 synthesizer
  • 1970 Neve 1073 channel amplifier
  • 1970 Robert Moog - Moog Music Minimoog synthesizer
  • 1971 AKG C-414 microphone
  • 1971 Eventide Clockworks 1745 Digital Delay
  • 1971 Lexicon Delta T-101 - first pro digital audio device
  • 1971 UREI Cooper Time Cube (Duane Cooper/Bill Putnam)
  • 1972 MCI JH-400 - first inline console
  • 1973 JBL 4311 studio monitors
  • 1973 Roland RE-201 Space Echo
  • 1973 Thiele-Small Parameters (A.N. Thiele/Richard Small)
  • 1974 Yamaha PM1000 Live Console
  • 1975 Aphex Aural Exciter
  • 1975 Constant Directivity HF Horn (Don Keele) 
  • 1975 Eventide H910 - 1st quality pitch changer
  • 1976 Ampex ATR-102 mastering recorder
  • 1976 dbx 160 (VU) compressor/limiter
  • 1976 Dolby Laboratories Dolby Stereo theater sound
  • 1976 EMT 250 - 1st digital reverberation unit
  • 1976 TASCAM 80-8 analog 8-track recorder
  • 1977 CSI MDM-4 - first Near Field Monitor™ (Ed Long)
  • 1977 Soundstream commercial digital recording system
  • 1977 SSL 4000 - first computerized console
  • 1977 Yamaha NS10M speakers
  • 1978 3M Digital Mastering System digital multitrack
  • 1978 New England Digital Synclavier
  • 1978 PZM Microphone
  • 1978 Roger Nichols Digital - Wendel drum machine
  • 1978 Sequential Prophet V programmable polyphonic synth
  • 1978 Studer A800 microprocessor controlled multitrack
  • 1978 UREI 813 Time Align™ studio monitors
  • 1979 990 Discrete Op-Amp Deane Jensen
  • 1979 Fairlight CMI (Computer Musical Instrument)
  • 1979 Lexicon 224 digital reverb
  • 1979 Otari MTR-90 - best-selling analog 24-track
  • 1979 Roger Linn, Linn Electronics LM-1 Drum Computer
  • 1979 TEAC Model 144 Portastudio multitrack cassette
  • 1980 Lexicon PCM 41 digital delay
  • 1980 Meyer UPA-1 - arrayable, trapezoidal loudspeaker
  • 1980 Roland TR 808 drum machine
  • 1980 Trident Series 80 console
  • 1981 Deane Jensen 990 discrete op amp
  • 1982 Sony PCM-F1 digital recording processor
  • 1982 Techron TEF System 10 analyzer
  • 1982 Tom Scholz/SRD Rockman
  • 1983 Dave Smith - MIDI specification
  • 1983 Kurzweil 250 - ROM-based sampling keyboard
  • 1983 RPG Diffusor
  • 1983 Sony PCM-3324 DASH format digital multitrack
  • 1983 Yamaha DX7 FM synthesizer (John Chowning)
  • 1984 Klark Teknik DN360 dual graphic equalizer
  • 1985 API Lunchbox 500-series module housing
  • 1985 Audio Precision System One audio test system
  • 1985 Future Sonics Ear Monitors
  • 1985 MOTU Performer MIDI sequencer
  • 1985 TC Electronic 2290 Digital Delay
  • 1986 Yamaha SPX90 reverb
  • 1987 Meyer Sound SIM system analyzer
  • 1987 Neutrik Speakon connector
  • 1987 Sonic Solutions NoNoise
  • 1988 Akai MPC60 sequencer/drum machine
  • 1988 Eventide H3000 UltraHarmonizer
  • 1989 Meyer HD-1 Studio Monitors
  • 1990 CEDAR System
  • 1990 Opcode Studio Vision - 1st digital audio sequencer
  • 1991 Alesis ADAT modular digital multitrack recorder
  • 1991 Digidesign Pro Tools
  • 1991 Genelec 1031A powered studio monitor
  • 1991 iZ Technology RADAR disk-based 24-track
  • 1992 L-Acoustics V-DOSC (first line array)
  • 1992 Mackie CR-1604 compact mixer
  • 1992 Millennia Media HV-3 mic preamp – John La Grou
  • 1992 Neutrik Combo XLR-1/4" connector
  • 1992 Waves Q10 Paragraphic Equalizer (first audio plug-in)
  • 1995 JBL EON Loudspeakers
  • 1995 SIA Software SMAART Audio Analysis Program
  • 1995 Yamaha 02R digital console
  • 1996 Empirical Labs Distressor compressor
  • 1997 Antares Auto-Tune software
  • 1998 AEA R44-C ribbon microphone
  • 1998 Line 6 Pod guitar processor
  • 1998 Manley VoxBox tube channel strip
  • 1998 Royer Labs R-121 ribbon microphone
  • 2000 JBL Professional – VerTec line array
  • 2000 Propellerhead Reason Music Software
  • 2002 Crane Song Phoenix plug-in
  • 2002 Digidesign Pro Tools|HD 192 kHz
  • 2004 Solid State Logic AWS900 studio console
  • 2010 QSC K-Series Speakers