The Most Important Inventions of the Past Century That Changed Everything
The Mail Online has assembled a list of inventions and gadgets that have transformed our lives. Yet we take almost all of them for granted.
You can view the full list here, but I thought I’d point out some of their music-related choices:
- Radio tuners (1917)
- Superheterodyne radio circuit (1918)
- Loudspeaker (1924)
- Car radio (1929)
- Portable transistor radio (1954)
- Stereo/HiFi systems (c. 1958-60)
- The Internet (1969)
- Sony Walkman (1979)
- CD player (1982)
- Sony Discman (1984)
- Bose noise cancelling headphones (1986)
- MP3 player (1996)
- iPod (2001)
- Beats by Dre (2008)
- iPad (2011)
Beats by Dre?!?! How much did they pay to be included on this list? Those thing sound like garbage, and they are nothing more than a fashion statement. Think of them as Hummer H2's for your ears. All style, no substance. Yeesh.
Sorry,
But the iPad and Beats by Dr. Dre have not changed a fraction of a fraction of "EVERYONE" The Discman and noise cancelling headphones are right there too. The iPod IS an MP3 player, so I would give the "change" credit to the MP3 player, specifically the Diamond Rio