The Advance of Audio Apparatuses by Pop Chart Lab, Featuring Music Players From the 1840s to Modern Day

Pop Chart Lab has created a “masterful recording of over 219 music players from the 1840s to modern day” in their illustration, “The Advance of Audio Apparatuses”.

Color-coded and hand-illustrated, this chart scores a wide spectrum of audio devices, from Edison’s early phonograph to the Disco Lyte boombox to the Sony Walk/Discman, all the way to the rise of mp3 players like the iPod and Zune. If music is the gateway to the soul, this high-fidelity timeline lays down the ways we’ve been unlocking the doors through 173 years of audio history.