LP record introduced
1948 · Event
Columbia's 33-rpm long-playing record lets a whole symphony or album fit on one disc, reshaping how music is sold and heard.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, USA
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Dante's Divine Comedy (1320)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- The Beatles release Please Please Me (1963)
- The Last Supper (1495)
Around 1948
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Cold War (1947)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Death of Hitler / Fall of Berlin (1945)
- Fall of France (1940)