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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 ...
Part of his house there, located on Josef Weinheber Strasse, has been preserved as a museum in his honour. The English poet W. H. Auden , who spent summers in Kirchstetten from 1958 until 1973, wrote a poem titled "Josef Weinheber."
He angrily accuses Jason of treachery at the end of Book 1 but Glaucus reconciles them, and he nearly threatens the Colchian king but Jason prevents it with a conciliatory speech. [1] 93, 1043, 1289, 1330; [3] 196, 363, 440, 515, 1174 Peleus: Brother of Telamon, from Phthia, he is father of the infant Achilles: One of Jason's counselors.
John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...
That same year he published his first book, Mount Zion, a collection of poems. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ a ] In 1932 Betjeman began a career in broadcasting, with a radio programme about the proposed destruction of Waterloo Bridge ; he continued with regular radio work for the rest of his life, appearing in a wide range of genres, from panel and game shows ...
Harmonium is a book of poetry by American poet Wallace Stevens. His first book at the age of forty-four, it was published in 1923 by Knopf in an edition of 1,500 copies. This collection comprises 85 poems, ranging in length from just a few lines (" Life Is Motion ") to several hundred (" The Comedian as the Letter C ") (see the footnotes [ 1 ...
Flecker's poem The Golden Journey to Samarkand was published in 1913, but only found its larger context when his play, Hassan, was published.. Hassan (The Story of Hassan of Bagdad and How He Came to Make the Golden Journey to Samarkand) [9] is a five-act drama in prose with verse passages.