The very first recording was made for RCA Victor in 1929 with Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra, drawn from members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Its first recording is an a cappella version from 1922 by the Sacred Harp Choir.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

Early evidence of such practices appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25, 000 years ago ; the first step towards recording the Moon ’ s influence upon tides and rivers, and towards organizing a communal calendar.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

In 1949, the company developed magnetic recording tape and in 1950, sold the first tape recorder in Japan.

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

The concert was recorded by Columbia Records, preserving for the first time musical passages and numbers not included on the original Broadway cast recording.

It might appear at first sight as though one connection would serve, but the differences in pressure on which these instruments depend are so minute, that the pressure of the air in the room where the recording part is placed has to be considered.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

Bookkeeping involves, first of all, recording the details of all of these source documents into multi-column journals ( also known as a books of first entry or daybooks ).

After moving from his home in Chicago to Washington, D. C., he set up one of the first home recording studios where he not only recorded the album Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger but he recorded his valet, Marvin Gaye.

Atkins also became manager of RCA Victor's Nashville studio, eventually inspiring and seeing the completion of the legendary RCA Studio B, the first studio built specifically for the purpose of recording on the now-famous Music Row.

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

MFSB released " TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia )", a 1974 hit recording featuring vocals by The Three Degrees, which became the first disco song to reach number one, after " Love's Theme ", on the Billboard Hot 100 ; it was written as the theme song for Soul Train.

In recording two interceptions and a fumble recovery during the game, Howley was the first defensive player to win the honor.

# Cornerback Larry Brown – Super Bowl XXX – Brown became the first cornerback to be named Super Bowl MVP, recording two interceptions for a total of 77 return yards.

In 1949, Jack Sheedy, the owner of a San Francisco – based record label called Coronet, was talked into making the first recording of Brubeck's octet and later his trio.

The first release of archival material since Decade and Lucky Thirteen would appear in 2006, Live at the Fillmore East, a recording from a 1970 concert featuring Crazy Horse with Danny Whitten.

Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", in 1945.

It was while working with Brown that Day scored her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", released in early 1945.

Her recording of " Sentimental Journey " was the first song placed in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The first SES Astra satellite, the 16-channel RCA 4000 Astra 1A, was launched by the Ariane Rocket in December 1988.

* 1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records " Rocket 88 ", often cited as " the first rock and roll record ", at Sam Phillips ' recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

Their first release, " Buick 59 ," ( based on Todd Rhodes's double-entendre R & B hit " Rocket 69 ") was backed with a ballad called

Heinlein's first novel published as a book, Rocket Ship Galileo, was initially rejected because going to the moon was considered too far out, but he soon found a publisher, Scribner's, that began publishing a Heinlein juvenile once a year for the Christmas season.

Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

Rocket technology first became known to Europeans following its use by the Mongols Genghis Khan and Ögedei Khan when they conquered parts of Russia, Eastern, and Central Europe.

The division first worked on ChuChu Rocket!

The orbiter was lifted up on a sling very similar to the one used at Kennedy Space Center and placed inside the Dynamic Test Stand building, and there mated to the Vertical Mate Ground Vibration Test tank ( VMGVT-ET ), which in turn was attached to a set of inert Solid Rocket Boosters ( SRB ) to form a complete shuttle launch stack, and marked the first time in the program's history that all Space Shuttle elements, an Orbiter, an External Tank ( ET ), and two SRBs, were mated together.

On the first play of their drive, Coach Joe Gibbs had Theismann run a screen play called " Rocket Screen ", but Raiders linebacker Jack Squirek intercepted the pass and returned it for a touchdown to give the Raiders a 21-3 halftime lead.

* April 24 – China's first satellite ( Dong Fang Hong 1 ) is launched into orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket ( CZ-1 ).

The British edition, first published in 1952 by Hart-Davis omits " The Rocket Man ", " The Fire Balloons ", " The Exiles " and " The Concrete Mixer ", and adds " Usher II " from The Martian Chronicles and " The Playground ".

1st December 1967: The first ground experimental nuclear rocket engine ( XE ) assembly, is shown here in " cold flow " configuration, as it makes a late evening arrival at Engine Test Stand No. 1 at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station, in Jackass Flats, Nevada.

The novel was originally envisioned as the first of a series of books called " Young Rocket Engineers ".

Sun Studio at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, where in 1951 Turner and the Kings of Rhythm recorded Rocket 88, one of the first Rock and roll records.

Oldsmobile's Rocket V8 engine was the leader in performance, generally considered the fastest cars on the market and by the mid 1950s their styling was among the first to offer a wide, " open maw " grille, suggestive of jet propulsion.

Though the Rocket was not the first steam locomotive, it was the first to bring together several innovations to produce the most advanced locomotive of its day.

Rockets boiler was of the more highly developed form, with the separate firebox and a blastpipe for draught, rather than Seguin's cumbersome fans, but Rocket was not the first multi-tubular boiler, although it remains unclear just whose invention it was.

In conjunction with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Space Adventures facilitated the flights for all of the world's first private space explorers.

On May 17, 2004, Civilian Space eXploration Team launched the GoFast Rocket on a suborbital flight, the first amateur spaceflight.

The " Rocket " was the most prolific goal-scorer of his era, the first to achieve the feat of 50 goals in 50 games.

Also in the UK in 1967 the go-ahead had been given for the UK's ( separately developed ) three-stage Black Arrow rocket launcher ( made by Westland Aircraft, with Bristol Siddeley rocket engines developed at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott, Buckinghamshire )-Britain did not need to rely on Europa, and Black Arrow would be ready first.

Phillips recorded what some — notably music historian Peter Guralnick — consider the first rock and roll record: " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, a band led by 19-year-old Ike Turner, who also wrote the song.