These links are to sites primarily concerned with stories of the events, inventions, people, organizations, and companies involved in Audio Engineering.

These links are provided as a service to users of the AES Historical Committee web page. Listing here is not to be construed as an endorsement or recommendation of any of the organizations or vendors listed. The AES Historical Committee makes no representations regarding these links. Listing is strictly alphabetical within each section.

Organizations, etc., are located in the United States unless otherwise noted.

Links updated 2002-06-20  jm
Links updated 2002-11-05  hcs

Organizations and Institutions

• Association for Recorded Sound Collections

• Audio Engineering Society

• British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society (BKSTS) (UK)

• Canadian Antique Phonograph Society

• City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (England)

• IEEE History Center

• IEEE Oral History Site

• International Association of Sound Archives

• Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center

• MTSU (Middle Tennessee State University) Student Chapter of the SMPTE, Timeline

• NAB Information Resource Center

• National Archives motion picture, film, sound, and video recording collection

• Grammy Gateway Web Resources

• N ARAS Preservation & Technology

• Phonogrammarchiv, an institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

• Radio History Society

• Recordi ng Technology History  (Steve Schoenherr's timeline, 1877...2000, with a zillion links)

• Sound Recording History  (David Morton)

• Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound

• Stanford History of Science and Technology Collections

• Vintage Computer Festival links

• Vinyl Record Day

Manufacturers

• Grommes History

• ELP Laser Turntable

• Another ELP Laser Turntable Page

• History of James B. Lansing and his company

• Nagra History

• Georg Neumann Berlin Documents (Germany)

• Georg Neumann Berlin Historical Collection (Germany)

• Phillips-Miller Opto-Mechanical System

• Schoeps History (Germany)
• in German
• in English
• in  French

• Studer History (Switzerland)

Museums

• American Widescreen Museum (history of sound in the movies)

• Chalk Hill Media Broadcast Equipment Museum

• The Computer Museum History Center

• The Computer Museum History Center exhibits page

• History of Public Address

• Magnetic Disk Heritage Center

• Museum of Sound Recording

• Museum of Sound Recording, alternate URL

• Museum of the Moving Image (UK)

• National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, Yorkshire, UK

• NAA Omroepmuseum, Hilversum, Netherlands

• Stef ano Pasini's Turntable and Tape Recorder Page: History, Restoration, Modification

• Pavek Museum

• Prittl ewell Priory Communications Museum

• Russian Microphone Muzeum [sic]

• Twelve Microphones That Changed History

• Vintage Broadcast Microphones. Includes links for parts and repair.

Unofficial Web Pages about Particular Manufacturers or Subjects

• Altec Lansing's (unofficial) Homepage

• Ampex Mailing List

• Elect rocompaniet (Otala amplifier) history

• H.H. Scott Hi-Fi Stereo Archive

• H.H. Scott tube amplifiers

• H.H. Scott tube tuners

• Sony APR group's web page

• Heathkit Museum--audio products

• Heathkit page by Bill Wilkinson

• High Fidelity Radios Circa 1935

• James B. Lansing Heritage and Legacy

• John Herbert Orr

• Loudspeaker and public address systems history "Western Electric History" (part of "A Memorial to the Bell System")

• Paul's Virtual Museum of [chiefly British] Tape Recorders

• Quadruplex Park Museum of Broadcast Technology

• Roger Russell's McIntosh History Page

• Presto History

• Revox History in English

• Revox history in German

• San Francisco Bay area broadcasting history

• Studer List

• Studio 3 History  (Dave Sarser)

Schematics and Other Technical Documentation

• Ampex Schematics and Manuals

• A Bibliography of "Must Have" Tube Electronics Books

• Hi-Fi Literature

• Phonograph Makers' Pages (Hints to Builders of Phonographs)

• Pro Audio Reference Books

• Reprints of Classic Books on Acoustics, Electronics, Loudspeakers, Vacuum Tubes, etc.

• Schematics for Preamplifiers, Compressors, and Limiters

• Shure Discontinued Products (Acrobat PDF format)

• Technician's Filing Cabinet (links to schematics for consumer and professional audio, ham radio, transformers, military electronics, test equipment, and old radios)

• Tel efunken T9 Tape Deck

• Tube Manuals (Acrobat PDF format)

The Cylinder and 78 rpm Period

• 100 Edison Recordings for Listening

• Edison Cylinder Reproducers

• Nimbus Ambisonic Transfer Process

• Nimbus Ambisonic Microphone Setup

• North American Phonograph Company (cylinders, moulded and otherwise)

• Downlo adable program for PCs to generate strobe discs

• 78 rpm Record Home Page

• Reproduc tion of 78 rpm Records

• Tim Gracyk's home page

• Wolverine Antique Music Society

• www.tinfoil.com

The LP Period

• John Hilliard

• Interview with John Pfeiffer

Personalities

• Bell family papers at the Library of Congress

• André Charlin

• Thomas Edison Papers

• Edison National Historic Site

• Edison Birthplace Museum

• Edison via Library of Congress American Memory: "Inventing Entertainment"

• The Edison Museum in Ft. Meyers, Fla.

• Bill Putnam and Universal Audio

• Jack Mullin

• NPR program on Jack Mullin in Real Audio format

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