Word: corti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ELIZABETH. EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA- Count Egon Corti-Yale University Press ($4). A sympathetic, frequently sentimental life of Franz Joseph's beautiful, neurotic consort. Skillfully told, carefully documented, it should provide a mine of anecdote for specialists in court gossip...
...microphone, similar to a telephone transmitter. In this, sound waves (in the air) were transformed into electrical impulses. These currents were intensified with a battery and discharged into the body. Seeking the path of least resistance the currents probably passed through blood vessels. Arriving at the organ of Corti (one of the essential organs of hearing) in the inner ear the electrical impulses apparently stimulated the auditory nerve (which carries sound impressions to the brain), gave the sensation of sound...