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Telharmonium console by Thaddeus Cahill 1897. The Telharmonium (also known as the Dynamophone [1]) was an early electrical organ, developed by Thaddeus Cahill c. 1896 and patented in 1897. [2] [3] [4] The electrical signal from the Telharmonium was transmitted over wires; it was heard on the receiving end by means of "horn" speakers. [5]
Cahill had tremendous ambitions for his invention; he wanted telharmonium music to be broadcast into hotels, restaurants, theaters, and even houses via the telephone line. [3] At a starting weight of 7 tons (and up to 200 tons) and a price tag of $200,000 (approx. $5,514,000 today), only three telharmoniums were ever built, and Cahill's vision ...
Immediate source: The ‘Telharmonium’ or ‘Dynamophone’ Thaddeus Cahill, USA 1897. 120 Years of Electronic Music (120years.net). Date: 1907 (original file) Source: This file was derived from: Telharmonium - Scientific American 1907.png: Author: Telharmonium - Scientific American 1907.png: Unknown author; derivative work: Clusternote
Simplified diagram of how a tonewheel works Goldschmidt tone wheel (1910), used as an early beat frequency oscillator. A tonewheel or tone wheel is a simple electromechanical apparatus used for generating electric musical notes in electromechanical organ instruments such as the Hammond organ and in telephony to generate audible signals such as ringing tone.
Paul Muldoon is an Irish poet.. He has published more than thirty collections and won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize.. At Princeton University he has been both the Howard G. B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts.
A more dangerous attack came from Joseph Ritson, whose pamphlet Observations on the Three First Volumes of the History of English Poetry, bitterly tore into Warton for the many mistranscriptions, misinterpretations, and errors of fact that his book, as the very first attempt to map the Middle English world, inevitably contained. [16]
The "Fragment of a Translation from the 9th Book of Virgil's Aeneid" was included as "The Episode of Nisus and Euryalus, A Paraphrase from the Æneid, Lib. 9", made up of 406 lines. After a scathing review in The Edinburgh Review in 1808, Byron responded by publishing, anonymously, his satiric poem English Bards and Scotch Reviewers in 1809. [2]
Muir, Bernard J. (ed.), The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Exeter: Exeter University Press, 2000). Foys, Martin et al. (eds.) Old English Poetry in Facsimile Project, (Madison, WI: Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, 2019-). Online edition annotated and ...