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Sunday Sound Thought #77 – It Was My Idea First!

June 18, 2017 by Richard Gould

How important is it to be first? My wife and I recently returned from a trip to the East Coast and England (old England, the first one, not "New England"). While on the East Coast, we decided to stop off at the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange which houses Edison's laboratory complex where he developed numerous inventions including his filament light bulb … [Read more...]

Can You Hear Me Now? Sound Technology of the 19th Century

August 9, 2012 by Jack Menhorn

Scientific American has a super-cool article detailing audio technology from days long past.  Speaking tubes, phonographs and and even a more recent "tree turn-table" are discussed.  Incoming blurb: In the early 18oos, Jean-Baptiste Bio had experimented with how sound travels through long tubes, using the water pipes of Paris, and found that the confines of the piping served to … [Read more...]

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