Heard here, it was one of he earliest fully electronic musical intruments & was created c. 1920 by a Russian inventor
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1920 1930  120 Years of Electronic Music  One of the earliest electronic instruments of the Soviet period, the Radio (or 'Cathodic') ... orchestra in one, has been perfected at Leningrad, Russia, by the inventor, ... length and mouth of the pipes, they are here created by and electrical circuit. .... organ workshop at 100 rue du Moulin-Fagot, Tourcoing, Lillle, France c1920.
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Electronic music - Wikipedia  Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music ... During the 1920s and 1930s, electronic instruments were introduced and the first ... Electronic music was also created in Japan and the United States beginning in the 1950s. .... 1" in 1939 by adjusting the speeds of recorded tones.
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Lon Theremin - Wikipedia  Lev Sergeyevich Termen (Russian:   ) (27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896  3 November 1993), or Lon Theremin in the United States, was a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and .... Theremin invented another listening device called The Thing.
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Theremin - Wikipedia  The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the Westernized name of its Russian inventor, Lon ... The instrument was invented by a young Russian physicist named Lev Sergeyevich ... One oscillator operates at a fixed frequency.
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Electronic musical instrument - Wikipedia  "Electronic instrument" redirects here. For electronic measuring instruments, see Electronic instrumentation. For other electric music instruments, see Electric instrument. Ondes Martenot created by Maurice Martenot, 1928. An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound using electronics. ... A significant invention, which later had a profound effect on electronic music,...
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Edison2 - Edison's invention of the phonograph grew out of his ...  In 1876, it was the subject of a patent dispute by two men: Alexander ... the basic technology in 1874, he did not believe the device was marketable. ... In the end, Bell triumphed over the courts but faced market competition from Edison. ... 1875 Western Union wrapped up the quadruplex court battles and gave Edison a new.
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Man's Best Friend: A Brief History of Robots | DiscoverMagazine.com  Dec 1, 2005 ... The term robot comes from Karel Capek's 1920 play R.U.R. ... and a series of bump sensorsall connected to computers via radio and video ... The force was strong with these faux androids 30 years ago. ... In 1978 Mark Pauline's futuristic performance art troupe, called Survival Research Laboratories,...
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Igor Stravinsky - Wikipedia  Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the ... Stravinsky began piano lessons as a young boy, studying music theory and...
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The Tragic Birth of FM Radio  Damn Interesting  Aug 10, 2006 ... He won a patent for FM radio in 1933, and the following year he did his first field test ... The AM broadcast was static-filled and the FM broadcast was clean and rich. ... Through the years Armstrong's widow would bring twenty-one patent ..... In the early 60's, I recall listening to FM stations on my father's new...
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Phonograph - Wikipedia  The phonograph is a device invented in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of ... In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm which ... The disc phonograph record was the dominant audio recording format ..... inventions, they filed patent applications and began to seek out investors.
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Aleksandr Popov | Russian engineer | Britannica.com  Evidently he built his first primitive radio receiver, a lightning detector (1895), without ... Aleksandr Popov, in full Aleksandr Stepanovich Popov (born March 4 [March 16, ... generally accepted that radio communication was actually invented by him. ... the first to use an antenna in the transmission and reception of radio waves.
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Free Flashcards about INVENTORS-J - StudyStack  PRINCE BORIS BOLITZEN INVENTED AN ELECTROMAGNETIC ONE OF THESE, AND WAS ... BY EARLY 1895, AT HIS ESTATE NEAR BOLOGNA, HE COULD RING A BELL A FEW YARDS AWAY VIA RADIO WAVES, MARCONI. AROUND...
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Synthesizer - Wikipedia  A synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are ... Synthesizers were first used in pop music in the 1960s. .... These small instruments consisted of an electronic oscillator, vibrato effect, passive filters etc. .... Robert Moog built his first prototype between 1963 and 1964, and was then...
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intelligent metronome powered by psoc - Colorado State University  Apr 29, 2007 ... Originally invented by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel in 1812 this device has .... and taking ideas from Justin's musical background about different features ... phase locked loop, internal main oscillator, internal low speed ... power which can be used for various PSoC subsystems. ..... every time a beat occurred.
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Innovation Icon  Les Paul  The Music Experience  He invented multitrack recording and overdubbing, using those techniques for the first ... He was among the first developers of the solid-body electric guitar, which went on ... As a recording artist, Paul and his wife, Mary Ford, enjoyed a run of...
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Electronic organ - Wikipedia  An electronic organ is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally, it was designed to imitate the sound of pipe organs, theatre organs, band sounds, or orchestral sounds. .... One of the earlier electronic tonewheel organs was conceived and...
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Phonograph - Wikipedia  The phonograph is a device invented in 1877 for the mechanical recording and reproduction of ... The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison. ..... "In December, 1877, a young man came into the office of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and placed before the editors a small, simple machine about which very few...
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Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky  But his parents did not pay attention to his musical capabilities. ... performances of very famous musicians, such as Clara Schumann, and also frequented the Italian ... Rubinstain's brother Nikolay to teach at the newly founded Moscow Conservatory. ... Early in 1866 he began work on his first symphony "Winter Daydreams".
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The History of the Phonograph - Personal.psu.edu  Instead of using paper as a medium of recording, he used tin foil to record the ... The first audio recorded and played back was Edison saying the nursery rhyme, ... a step in the direction that we are all thankful for today, home entertainment. ... were not for the invention of the phonograph, music is an essential part of people's...
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phonograph - Search-ID.com  230px|thumb|right|[[Ediphone|Edison cylinder phonograph ca. ... of this 1877 invention is from the Greek for "sound writing"; Phonograph,pinball machine,transistor radio; (Sarah of the Clue Crew indicates another drawing on the monitor.) ... having a helical indenting groove" in the 1877 patent application for this device...
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The Transistor - History - Nobelprize.org  Dec 19, 2002 ... Such logic chips are at the heart of your personal computer and many other ... Soon after the discovery of the light bulb, a third electrode was placed in ... Radio brought information rapidly to the masses and was the first widely...