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Technology Timelines: Music Technology Tom Jackson

Technology Timelines: Music Technology By Tom Jackson

Technology Timelines: Music Technology by Tom Jackson


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Summary

Trace the progress of modern technology from a machine or vehicle's early foundations to the present day.

Technology Timelines: Music Technology Summary

Technology Timelines: Music Technology by Tom Jackson

From early music players such as the gramophone to today's digital music platforms and players, trace the evolution of technology's developments in all things music-related. A host of famous musical inventions show how music has become more portable over the years and how other inventions such as the Internet and easy access to electricity has powered the ways we can enjoy music. This book highlights how inventors and engineers have developed and improved on technology to make music players such an important part of human history. This book also dissects some of the major developments in each era, to give a rounded picture of these amazing machines.

Technology Timelines is a series of six book aimed at upper KS2 and early KS3 readers, tracing the development of specific technologies through the ages.

About Tom Jackson

Tom Jackson has been a writer for 20 years. He has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. Tom gets to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, his specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating these kinds of facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities.

Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken him to the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon rain forest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic.

Table of Contents

  • 1: Introduction
  • 1: Phonograph
  • 1: Gramophone
  • 1: Radio set
  • 1: Record player
  • 1: Portable radio
  • 1: Hi-Fi
  • 1: Tape desck
  • 1: Compact disc
  • 1: Going digital
  • 1: Music apps
  • 1: Modern sounds
  • 1: The future of music
  • 1: Glossary and index

Additional information

GOR008627081
9781445135793
1445135795
Technology Timelines: Music Technology by Tom Jackson
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Hachette Children's Group
20150312
32
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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