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June 29, 2012 09:58 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/agytmLyY2Rc/compressed-air-gramophones-a.html
Compressed-air gramophones: a loud, bad, wonderful idea
This web page (which is rather elderly itself) has valuable information on the long-lost Auxetophone and its successors and imitators, a family of compressed-air gramophones which were apparently very, very loud THE AUXETOPHONE: 1898-1918. Two Englishmen, Horace Short and Sir Charles A Parsons (yes, the steam turbine man) introduced the compressed air amplifiers known as [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/agytmLyY2Rc/compressed-air-gramophones-a.html
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