Technology Timelines: Music Technology

Author: Tom Jackson
Publisher: Franklin Watts Ltd
Category: Children's Music Books, Nonfiction History Books for Kids, Science, Technology
Age Group: 12-17
Book Format: Hardcover

From early music players such as the gramophone to today's digital music platforms and players, trace the evolution of technology's developments in all things music-related. A host of famous musical inventions show how music has become more portable over the years and how other inventions such as the Internet and easy access to electricity has powered the ways we can enjoy music. This book highlights how inventors and engineers have developed and improved on technology to make music players such an important part of human history. This book also dissects some of the major developments in each era, to give a rounded picture of these amazing machines.Technology Timelines is a series of six book aimed at upper KS2 and early KS3 readers, tracing the development of specific technologies through the ages.

Table Of Contents
1: Introduction

1: Phonograph

1: Gramophone

1: Radio set

1: Record player

1: Portable radio

1: Hi-Fi

1: Tape desck

1: Compact disc

1: Going digital

1: Music apps

1: Modern sounds

1: The future of music

1: Glossary and index
About Tom Jackson
Tom Jackson has been a writer for 20 years. He has written more than 80 books and contributed to hundreds more. Tom gets to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, his specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Tom spends his days finding fun ways of communicating these kinds of facts, new and old, to all age groups and reading abilities.
Tom lives in Bristol, England, with his wife and three children. He studied zoology at Bristol University and has had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. Tom has also worked as a conservationist, which saw him planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing wildlife from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken him to the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon rain forest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, he can be found mainly in the attic.

(BK-9781445135793)

SKU BK-9781445135793
Barcode # 9781445135793
Brand Franklin Watts Ltd
Artist / Author Tom Jackson
Shipping Weight 0.3200kg
Shipping Width 0.190m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.260m
Assembled Length 26.100m
Assembled Height 1.000m
Assembled Width 19.200m
Type Hardcover

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