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The first electric synthesizer was invented in 1876 by Elisha Gray.
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The giant electric signs and marquees were lit up for the first time since blackout regulations had been instituted, and the atmosphere was alive with the feeling that victory was just around the corner.
The first mention of an electric plant in Manchester seems to be one installed in Reuben Colvin's and Houghton's gristmill on the West Branch in Factory Point.
* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
* 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D. C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U. S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
* 1914 – In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
The relation between electric current, magnetic fields and physical forces was first noted by Hans Christian Ørsted who, in 1820, observed a compass needle was deflected from pointing North when a current flowed in an adjacent wire.
In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally.
In the 1950s, Leo Fender, with the help of his employee George Fullerton, developed the first mass-produced electric bass.
Following Fender's lead, Gibson released the first short scale violin-shaped electric bass with extendable end pin in 1953, allowing it to be played upright or horizontally.
( London's first deep-level tube railway, the City & South London Railway, had earlier also been built for cable haulage but had been converted to electric traction before opening in 1890.
* 1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of in a Jeantaud electric car.
In 1951, Leo Fender independently released his Precision Bass, the first commercially successful electric bass guitar.
The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical power supply.
One of the first to discover and publish a link between man-made electric current and magnetism was Romagnosi, who in 1802 noticed that connecting a wire across a voltaic pile deflected a nearby compass needle.
For electric utilities, it is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers.
This association gave rise to the English words " electric " and " electricity ", which made their first appearance in print in Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica of 1646.
In 1663 the German physicist Otto von Guericke created the first electric generator, which produced static electricity by applying friction in the machine.
The energy efficiency of electric lighting has increased radically since the first demonstration of arc lamps and the incandescent light bulb of the 19th century.
The first one views the electric and magnetic fields as three-dimensional vector fields.
Michael Faraday, in his electrolysis experiments, was the first to note the discrete nature of electric charge.
With numerous people experimenting with electrical instruments in the 1920s and early 1930s, there are many claimants to have been the first to invent an electric guitar.
The first electric guitars used in jazz were hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies with electromagnetic transducers.
Early electric guitar manufacturers include: Rickenbacker ( first called Ro-Pat-In ) in 1932, Dobro in 1933, National, AudioVox and Volu-tone in 1934, Vega, Epiphone ( Electrophone and Electar ), and Gibson in 1935 and many others by 1936.
The first recordings using the electric guitar were by Hawaiian style players, in 1933.
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The Fairlight CMI was the first sampling synthesizer, while the Synclavier was originally an FM synthesizer, not adding sampling synthesis until the 1980s.
In 1980, Yamaha eventually released the first FM digital synthesizer, the Yamaha GS-1, but at an expensive retail price of $ 16, 000.
The New Wave era of the 1980s first brought the digital synthesizer to the public ear.
The first synthesizer to run directly on a host computer's CPU was Reality, by Dave Smith's Seer Systems, which achieved a low latency through tight driver integration, and therefore could run only on Creative Labs soundcards.
The first music synthesizer workstations from Ensoniq, the ESQ-1 as well as SQ-80, used one 68B09E as their main CPU.
Vapor Trails marked the first studio recording not to include a single synthesizer, organ or keyboard part since the early 1970s.
* 1973 – Roland SH-1000: Japan's first commercial keyboard synthesizer.
* 1975 – Roland System-100: Roland's first attempt at a modular synthesizer.
* 1976 – Roland System-700: Roland's first professional-quality modular synthesizer.
* 1977 – Roland GR-500: Roland's first commercial guitar synthesizer.
* 1978 – Roland Jupiter-4: Roland's first self-contained polyphonic synthesizer.
* 1982 – Roland Juno-6: Roland's first synthesizer with digitally controlled oscillators.
* 1987 – Roland D-50: One of the popular digital synthesizers in late 1980s ; Roland's first all-digital synthesizer implementing its Linear Arithmetic synthesis ( a form of sample-based synthesis combined with subtractive synthesis ).
* 1991 – Roland SC-55 Sound Canvas: The world's first General MIDI synthesizer.
* 1992 – Roland DJ-70: A DJ sampling music workstation and synthesizer keyboard that featured the first scratch wheel pad.
* 1996 – Roland MC-303 Roland's first non-keyboard drum machine, sample-based synthesizer, and sequencer combination bearing the now-generic term Groovebox.
* 1997 – Roland JP-8000: Roland's first virtual analog synthesizer.
* 2006 – Roland SH-201: Roland's first affordable analog modeling synthesizer.
The Moog synthesizer was one of the first widely used electronic musical instruments.
Moog created the first voltage-controlled subtractive synthesizer to utilize a keyboard as a controller and demonstrated it at the AES convention in 1964.
The bass synthesizer music eventually replaced the original standard sitcom music by Jep Epstein when it was played again after the first broadcast " The Seinfeld Chronicles ".
* The first Moog synthesizer is designed by Robert Moog.
) His performance on the Monkees song " Daily Nightly " ( written by Michael Nesmith ) from the LP Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd. was the first use of a synthesizer on a rock recording.
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