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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 ...
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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
According to the book Cartographies of Time: History of the Timeline, the Synchronological Chart "was ninetheenth-century America's surpassing achievement in complexity and synthetic power." [ 9 ] The Oregon Encyclopedia notes that it is now prized by museums and library collections as an early representative of commercial illustration that ...
The World of the Bible (French: Le Monde de la Bible), published by Bayard Presse, is a 150-page quarterly review that offers a historical, archeological, and artistic approach to the biblical universe. It succeeded Bible et Terre Sainte ('Bible and Holy Land'), ISSN 0006-0712, a periodical published by the eponymous organization from 1957 to ...
“A Bible is now sort of a book on the shelf,” McQuillen said. “But at one point, this was a very personal object”. “In a museum setting, they become art and a little bit distanced, but ...
Gutenberg Bible in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The Gutenberg Bible is an edition of the Vulgate, a Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the Greek New Testament by St Jerome. The text contains emendations from the Parisian Bible tradition, and further divergences. [5]