Women in Audio

Appendix 1

Timeline of Women in Audio History

• 1821: Sophie Germain publishes Recherches sur la théorie des surfaces élastique.
• 1843: Ada Lovelace’s additions are featured in “Sketch of the Analytical Engine, invented by Charles Babbage Esq., By LF Menabrea of Turin officer of the military engineers, with Notes from the Translator.” These notes would earn her the title of “first computer programmer.”
• 1891: Margaret Watts-Hughes publishes in The Century Magazine in 1891.
• 1907: Frances Densmore records music of Native America tribes from 1907–1930.
• 1928–1929: Blanche Sewell, Viola Lawrence, and Barbara McLean are editors for Hollywood’s first “sound films.”
• 1928: Aletha Dickerson produces “Selling’ that Stuff” for the Hokum Boys on Paramount Records. ...