Headphones and Nathaniel Baldwin

From the roaring twenties, through the hippie seventies, until today music has altered the natural lifestyle of humans and what better way to listen to music then through compact headphones. Overtime, headphones have evolved from big over-ear headphones to smaller compact ones. Headphones have brought about an extreme diversity of music throughout different cultures. The first headphones were in vented by a man who goes by the name of Nathaniel Baldwin. He built the first headphones back in 1921 for people to carry music around and listen to it portably. Many ideas have come from this man’s great inventions and have continued until modern day. For instance, from headphones the evolution of speaker was put forth in the musical community as well as for other occupations.

Back in the early 1920s, it was the birth of a whole new sound. Not to be confused with the original first speaker. The actual first speaker was invented back in 1861 by a German teacher by the name of Johann Philipp Reis (EdisonTechCenter, 2013). It wasn’t until 1921 the first modern loudspeaker was invented (EdisonTechCenter, 2013). Speakers have shaped the world in so many ways that it’s impossible to name the world. Accordingly, just to name a few speakers have changed the way people listen to music. In the 70s many individuals started using speakers in many different clubs, bars, and cafes. Speakers also have been so modernized that now they are used in automobiles. These advances of speaker may seem to have positive impact within many different aspects of life, but on the contrary there are some negative impacts that are prevalent. For instance, as much as people love music, they also listen to it on a constant basis. So how is it that people can listen to mu...

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