Pages of history

In 1877, the French scientist Charles Cros was the first to scientifically substantiate the principles of recording sound on a drum (or disk) and its subsequent reproduction.

Seal of the era

In 1887, Emil Berliner, an American engineer of Jewish origin, proposed using a disc-shaped medium for recording. Working on his idea, Berliner first built and tested the Charles Cros device, proposed 20 years ago, using a zinc plate instead of chrome.

Sound of reality

In 1892, a method of galvanic replication from a positive zinc disk was developed, as well as a technology for pressing ebonite records using a steel printing matrix. But ebonite was quite expensive and was soon replaced by a shellac-based composite mass.

The past in the present

Fragile shellac records were produced until the middle of the 20th century, until they were supplanted by the cheaper and more reliable ones made of polyvinyl chloride. One of the first such records was the one released in 1897 by Victor in the USA.

Millennium turn

Vinyl sales in 2020 surpassed compact disc (CD) sales for the first time since the mid-1980s