i love reading through a book from 1906 and coming across an entire chapter about charging stations for electric vehicles
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i love reading through a book from 1906 and coming across an entire chapter about charging stations for electric vehicles
relatedly, I was perusing my copy of the September 1912 issue of Modern Electric (which you can find a scan of here: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Modern-Electrics/Modern-Electrics-1912-09.pdf)
when I noticed an article on page 580 titled "Experiments with the Musical Arc"
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relatedly, I was perusing my copy of the September 1912 issue of Modern Electric (which you can find a scan of here: https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Modern-Electrics/Modern-Electrics-1912-09.pdf)
when I noticed an article on page 580 titled "Experiments with the Musical Arc"
this article interests me greatly because it's arguably the first ever purely electronic synthesizer (the Telharmonium being a tone wheel synthesizer), and precedes the Theremin, which many people purport to be the first purely electronic synthesizer by at least 7 years
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this article interests me greatly because it's arguably the first ever purely electronic synthesizer (the Telharmonium being a tone wheel synthesizer), and precedes the Theremin, which many people purport to be the first purely electronic synthesizer by at least 7 years
unlike the Theremin, the unnamed synthesizer in this article (which we might as well call the Musical Arc Synthesizer) is designed to be played with a keyboard
also, because it uses a spark gap, and a lamp bank, one could argue that this is also the first music visualizer!
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unlike the Theremin, the unnamed synthesizer in this article (which we might as well call the Musical Arc Synthesizer) is designed to be played with a keyboard
also, because it uses a spark gap, and a lamp bank, one could argue that this is also the first music visualizer!
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this synthesizer is not listed on the Wikipedia page for electronic musical instruments (yet), and I assume it's fairly unknown
it's unclear if there are other devices invented earlier, or later but before the theremin, since these are hobbyist devices
i believe that the arrangement specified in the article would have produced a single-voice synthesizer, but i don't know enough about how these kinds of circuits work to say whether or not you would've gotten multiple oscillations simultaneously given the multiple capacitors
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i believe that the arrangement specified in the article would have produced a single-voice synthesizer, but i don't know enough about how these kinds of circuits work to say whether or not you would've gotten multiple oscillations simultaneously given the multiple capacitors
I've added Hyde's musical arc synthesizer to the wikipedia page on electronic musical instruments
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I've added Hyde's musical arc synthesizer to the wikipedia page on electronic musical instruments
George Cove's roof top solar panels, from the September 1909 issue of Modern Electrics
Cove accidentally invented a semiconductor PV panel while intending to invent a thermocoupler panel.
read more in this @lowtechmagazine post: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-solar-panel/
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