The AES has published two issues of its Journal that are devoted entirely to the history of audio engineering and the Audio Engineering Society We have reproduced the Contents pages in the links below, so you can see what topics were covered. Many of these papers have extensive lists of references.

The Centennial issue "The Phonograph and Sound Recording After One-Hundred Years", AES Journal Volume 25, Number 10/11 (1977 Oct/Nov), which is now out of print, but reprints of individual papers are available for purchase from the AES;

and the Commemorative issue "The AES: 50 Years of Contributions to Audio Engineering", AES Journal Volume 46, Number1/2 (1998 Jan/Feb), which is still available for purchase from the AES.