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- W82540334 abstract "an 1827 article titled Experiments on Audition, Charles Wheatstone, the King's College physics professor and co-signer of the 1837 patent on the electric telegraph, described with little fanfare a rudimentary, non-electric amplifier of faint sounds that he dubbed a microphone. Just over a half-century later, in 1878, a Kentucky music professor named David Hughes revived Wheats tone 's term for his own invention of the carbon microphone, the forerunner of modern ones. As W. H. Preece, the electrician for the British Post Office, put it at the time in public lectures, Hughes's device opened up new areas of acoustic inquiry: is an instrument which acts towards the ear as the microscope does the eye. It will render evident us sounds that are otherwise absolutely inaudible. I have heard myself the tramp of a little fly across a box with a tread almost as loud as that of a horse across a wooden bridge. There was a remarkable sound that accompanied the tramp of Mr. Fly, and a facetious friend ormine told me he thought the noise was occasioned by the neighing of the proboscis of the fly. Meanwhile, George Eliot, writing in the voice of the cynic Theophrastus Such, was more restrained about what she called the microphone which detects the cadence of the fly's foot on the ceiling, and may be expected presently discriminate the noises of our various follies as they soliloquise or converse in our brains. The tread of a fly was just the starting point for a writer in The Spectator who anticipated that it now would be possible to" @default.
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- W82540334 title "The Tramp of a Fly's Footstep: or, The Shriek, Rattle, and Roar of a Victorian Sound Track" @default.
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