2008-04-25
HC meeting time changed to Tuesday, 2008-05-20, 10:00...12:00 h on top of home page.
2008-04-23
Added HC meeting at Amsterdam Convention to top of home page.
2008-04-14
Added advertisement for Historical Events at Amsterdam Convention; reference to "AES Celebrates 60th Anniversary", and that Oral Histories will be available on DVDs; numerous minor rewordings to the home page.
2008-03-20
Added obituary for Ross Snyder
2008-02-29
Added Update on the Ampex Collection at Stanford University
2008-01-07
Added to Project Leaders page: Stan Tempelaars as Historical Events for the 124th Convention (Amsterdam, 2008-05).
2008-01-01
Added How the Audio Engineering Society Began, and Volume 0 of the AES Journal -- 1947...1952 .
2007-12-06
Added to project leaders: Tamara Horacek as Historical Events for the 125th Convention (SF, 2008-10)
2007-10-26
Updated obituaries: added Travis, Jensen, Lewin, Kettleman (missed before); Pritts, Edwards (new)
2007-10-17
Updated Officers & Project Leaders page.
2007-10-07
Added links to obituaries from Vol 48 & 49
2007-10-05
Updated Audio Patents Project
2007-09-02
Added HC Report to the BOG 2007-09-26
2007-09-27
Added HC Meeting Agenda for the 123 Convention.
2007-09-20
Add details on HC Meeting at the 123 Convention to the main page.
2007-08-10
Added links to obituaries from Vol 55 Nr 4...7
2007-07-27
Added Author's Affiliation Index of AES Publications. Know the author's company name, but forgot the author's name? Look here.
2007-07-19
Added History of Audio Engineering as Told Thru the AES Journal and How It All Began
2007-05-04
Added AESHC Committee Report to the BOG 2007-05-04
2007-04-24
Added Intirim Committee Report 2007-02-01
2007-04-21
Updated Search Patents of
All Countries
2007-03-17
Added links to obituaries from Vol 40...47, and Vol 55 Nr 1
2007-03-07
Added "An Afternoon With..." with Hilliard, Putnam, Frayne, Bryant, Klipsch,
and Taylor, to "Personal Histories"
2007-02-26
Added links to obituaries from Vol 22...31
2007-01-24
Updated AES HC Officers and Project Leaders
2006-10-02
Added Agenda for the 121st Convention, San Francisco, 2006 October
2006-09-26
Added Historical Committee reports:
2006-09-17
Added papers on Volume Indicators:
2006-07-08
Added Canonical List of AGFA, BASF, and IG Farben Tape Types
2006-05-11
Added Recording Studios, A Thirty-five Year History and Evolution
2006-04-18
Updated AESHC officers list.
2005-11-17
Added
Standardization Activity of the AES--the History Before 1982.
2005-11-15
Added Forensic Audio Engineering:
The complete "Watergate" report, formally
called "The EOB Tape of June 20, 1972: Report on a Technical
Investigation Conducted for the U.S. District Court for the District
of Columbia, by the Advisory Panel on White House Tapes May 31, 1974",
that is the basis for much of present-day forensic audio engineering and
Digital
Audio Engineering Standardization History at the AES: The
history of the development of the AES digital audio standards, as
given in the AES Journal minutes and reports of the Digital Audio
Standards and Technical Committees between 1977 and 1984, and in
Bart Locanthi's 1986 summary of the Committees' work.
2005-11-14
Added Historical Developments in Audio Engineering 1877...1977, with 81
references to papers and patents
2005-10-02
Added Draft Committee
Report, 2005-09-29 and
Agenda for the 119th Convention, New York, 2005 September.
2005-09-14
Added Book listings and reviews in the AES Journal, 1990...2002, Index of.
2005-09-14
Updated Obituaries index: We are now beginning to link directly to the more recent obituaries, by courtesy of the AES Journal.
2005-08-14
Updated AESHC officers list.
2005-05-27
Updated Patents of
All Countries.
2005-05-20
Added agenda for the AES Historical Committee Meeting at the 118th Convention, Barcelona, 2005 May.
2005-05-14
Added Preliminary Draft Project Plan: Audio Patents
2005-05-14
Added AES Historical Committee Draft Report
for the Board of Governors Meeting at the
118th Convention, Barcelona, 2005-06-01
2005-05-06
Added AES Historical Committee Final Report
for the Board of Governors Meeting at the
117th Convention, San Francisco, 2004-11-01
2005-03-11
Added Splicing
and recording tips inside of a 'Scotch' recording tape box, around
1970
2005-01-31
Added Digital
Audio Engineering Standardization History at the AES
2005-01-01
Added The
Education and Tribulations of a Precursory Disk Recording Engineer
by Robert J Callen -- Audio engineering in 1925...1928.
2004-12-23
Updated Index
to obituaries appearing in the AES Journal.
2004-11-16
Updated Manufacturers'
Official pages. Added Agenda
for the 117th Convention,San Francisco, 2004 October, Draft
Committee Report, 2004-10-17, Presentation
Schedule for 117th convention, Ampex
History Project.
2004-10-13
Updated Oral
History Project and An
Audio Timeline.
2004-08-27
Added Ray
Dolby's personal tour of the audio industry and how it changed from
analog to digital, a transcript of his 1992 Heyser lecture.
2004-07-08
Further revisions to
History of the AES.
2004-07-07
Added minutes
from 2004 May 10, 116th Convention, Berlin.
2004-07-03
Revised History
of the AES.
2004-06-29
Updated links
to manufacturer's official web pages and release
form for the Oral History Project.
2004-05-29
Added 2003
Oct 11, 115th Convention, New York; completely revamped the Links
to Other Historical Sites, and Museum Coordination Project.
2004-05-18
Added Presentation
Schedule for the 115th Convention, 2004 May.
2004-04-17
Added Committee
Report, 2004-04-07. Updated Officer
listing. Completely re-worked links.
2004-03-14
Added the
Historical Exhibit at the 116th Convention in Berlin, 2004 May
and the revised home page.
2004-03-02
Added Sel-Sync
and the Octopus, Ross Snyder's article from the ARSC
Journal, v. 34, no. 2 (fall 2004): 209-213.
2004-01-27
Updated link to Search
Patents of All Countries. Added Search
This Site and Its Links and History
of James B. Lansing and his company.
2004-01-10
Added Nagra
History
2004-01-10
Updated Index
to Obituaries in the AES Journal.
2004-01-04
Updated link to Quadruplex
Park Museum of Broadcast Technology.
2003-12-24
Updated link to Recordi
ng Technology History (Steve Schoenherr's timeline,
1877...2000, with a zillion links
2003-12-20
Updated H.K.
Thiele Archive. Added Audio
Engineering in Motion Pictures.
2003-11-16
Added H.K.
Thiele Preprint Index.
2003-11-04
Added Tube
Manuals (Acrobat PDF format), Vinyl
Record Day, Shure
Discontinued Products (Acrobat PDF format), Phonograph
Makers' Pages, ELP Laser
Turntable, Another
ELP Laser Turntable Page, Phillips-Miller
Opto-Mechanical System, Chalk
Hill Media Broadcast Equipment Museum, and Presentation
Schedule for "Vinyl Goes Digital".
Updated
Sound Recording
History (David Morton).
2003-10-22
Updated the list of AESHC
officers.
2003-10-18
Added 100
Edison Recordings for Listening, Museum
of Sound Recording, Museum
of Sound Recording, alternate URL, and a fuller description of
the status of the Ampex Museum &
Historical Collection at Stanford University.
2003-10-16
Added Edison
Cylinder Reproducers, Nimbus
Ambisonic Transfer Process, and Nimbus
Ambisonic Microphone Setup
2003-10-08
Added Agenda
for the 115th Convention, New York, 2003 October and Committee
Report, 2003-10-08.
2003-08-14
Added minutes
of 2003 Mar 24, 114th Convention, Amsterdam.
2003-08-13
Added Exhibit
Report for the 114th Convention, Amsterdam, 2003 Mar.
2003-06-02
Added Prittl
ewell Priory Communications Museum.
2003-05-08
Added Stef
ano Pasini's Turntable and Tape Recorder Page: History,
Restoration, Modification.
2003-05-07
Added link to American
Widescreen Museum (history of sound in the movies).
2003-04-16
Added Search
Patents of All Countries.
2003-03-23
Added Grommes
History and Sony
APR group's web page.
2003-03-23
Added When
Vinyl Ruled Report to the 109th Convention Committee.
2003-03-14
Added Plan
for "When Vinyl Ruled" at the 115 th AES Convention, New
York, 2003 October and Agendas, etc.,
of AES Historical Committee Meetings.
2003-03-11
Added Committee
Report, 2003-03-11
2003-03-10
Removed "draft"
from 2002
May 11, 112th Convention, Munich. Added:
2003-03-03
Added interview
release form for Oral History Project.
2003-03-03
Updated oral
history project and added Recording
Guildlines for Oral History.
2003-02-26
Updated AESHC
officers list.
2003-02-15
Added Reprints
of Classic Books on Acoustics, Electronics, Loudspeakers, Vacuum
Tubes, etc., A
Bibliography of "Must Have" Tube Electronics Books, and
Pro Audio Reference
Books.
2003-02-07
Updated Index
of obituaries in the AES journal.
2003-01-23
Added A
History of Audio Engineering and Magnetic Recording Before 1943.
2002-12-20
Added Auditory
Perspective, the classic Bell Telephone Labs paper from 1934 in
Acrobat format (4.5 MB file).
2002-12-17
Added instructions for
configuring email clients
to send plain ASCII email and not HTML.
2002-12-16
Updated Guidelines
and Officers and Project Leaders.
2002-12-05
Added Jack
Mullin article.
2002-11-19
Added Paul
W Klipsch, The Life...The Legend
2002-11-08
Added Historical
Committee Activities Report from the 113th Convention, Los Angeles,
2002 Oct.
2002-11-05
Added Twelve
Microphones That Changed History.
2002-10-11
Revised main page
and Using the AESHC
E-mail Reflector & FTP to incorporate new subscription
page.
2002-09-26
Posted revised Selected
Bibliography of
Histories of Magnetic Tape Sound Recording; added Committee
Report, 2002-09-23.
2002-09-22
Added
Historical Committee Activities Report at the 112th Convention,
Munich, 2002 May; added H. K.
Thiele Archive documents.
2002-09-05
Added draft
minutes of the HC meeting, 2002 May 11, 112th Convention, Munich;
added links: North
American Phonograph Company and John
Hilliard.
2002-08-11
Updated the Index
to obituaries appearing in the AES Journal.
2002-06-20
Completely revised and
updated the links.
2002-04-30
Added Committee
Report, 2001-04-30.
2002-04-22:
Added 2001
Dec 1, 111th Convention, New York (Draft).
2002-04-10:
Added San
Francisco Bay area broadcasting history.
2002-03-24:
Added Histo
rical Committee Activites at the 112th Convention, Munich. Added
link to the Magnetic Disk Heritage
Center. Added link to History
of Public Address. Added link to Vintage
Broadcast Microphones. Added link to Bill
Putnam and Universal Audio.
2002-03-05:
Added When
Vinyl Ruled Report to the 111th Convention Committee and Account
of the direct-to-disc recording session by Robert Auld.
2002-01-26:
Added Stanford's press
release about their acquisiton of the Ampex Museum &
Historical Collection.
2002-01-06:
Removed "Draft"
from approved minutes of 2001 May 13,
Amsterdam, and 2001 Sept. 14 (Los Angeles) meetings.
2001-11-19:
Updated Oral History
Project List of
Completed Interviews and List
of Recommended Interviewees.
2001-11-19:
Added Detailed schedule
for When
Vinyl Ruled exhibit. Added Committee
Report, 2001-12-04. Updated link to Electrocompaniet history.
2001-09-19:
Added Internet
Communications for the AES Historical Committee.
2001-09-16:
Added Russian
Microphone Muzeum [sic].
2001-09-15:
Added Chairman's
Projects page.
2001-08-15:
Added draft
minutes from the 110th Convention, 2001 May 13, Amsterdam.
2001-08-05:
Added link to history
of loudspeakers and public address systems.
2001-07-24:
Posted revised version of
A Selected Bibliography
of Histories of Magnetic Tape Sound Recording.
2001-06-23:
Posted A Selected
Bibliography of
Histories of Magnetic Tape Sound Recording.
Added
links to websites about Revox tape recorders in German
and English.
2001-05-06:
Posted Index
to historical issues of the AES Journal.
Posted
revised Oral
History Project main page.
2001-05-06:
Posted Draft
Historical Committee Report to the Board of Governors, 2001-05-16.
2001-02-14:
Posted list of new
officers.
2001-02-13:
Posted revised Guidelines.
2001-02-11:
Posted scans of 3M
Sound Talk Bulletins v. 1, no. 1-v. 3, no. 1. This makes all
issues of Sound Talk available on the AESHC web page.
2001-02-07:
Posted draft minutes
of the meeting held 2000-09-24 at the 109th Convention, Los Angeles.
Posted scans of 3M
Sound Talk Bulletins 35-40.
2001-02-06:
Posted revised index to
obituaries appearing in the AES
Journal.
Posted scans of 3M
Sound Talk Bulletins 1-34.
2001-01-09:
Posted the AESHC "Operating
Structure" approved 2000-02-23, at http://www.aes.org/
aeshc/docs/opstruct.html.
2000-10-17:
Re-designed main page; added
links for What's New; Books, Videotapes, etc.; How to join the email
reflectors; list of current projects.
