Word: ethereal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yorker. He takes a news item, a musical instrument (the zither, for example), an actress, an animal or the income tax and starts telling about it. Suddenly the reader becomes aware that Mr. Sullivan has left the ground and is loping around in a most ridiculous ether...
...Jazz is characteristic of America", said Leon Theremin; Russian scientist, professor in the Physico-Technical Institute of Leningrad, Russia, and inventor of the ether-wave music instrument. "Jazz is very interesting. It has had an influence on music and I believe that in the future it will have a greater influence, especially from the standpoint of new soundings...
Between the player and his instrument there are only ether-waves which are directed to the production of sound by the movement of the musician's hands in the air. Thereminvox, the ether-wave music instrument, and its influence upon musical development are of general interest internationally to the worlds of art and science...
Bishop Furse need have no fear of his bathtub scenes being flashed on New York screens, unless he wishes to install a television sending apparatus in his bathroom and engage expert operators; unless he deliberately commands that the bathing scene be transmitted through the ether. Incidently, at present stage of development, the apparatus takes up more room than a piano, costs more thar 20 pianos...
...subjects of the lectures are as follows: April 9--Discovery of the Electron; April 11--Ether Wayes, Visible and Invisible; April 13--Atomic and Sub-Atomic Magnitudes; April 16--Light Darts; April 18--Relativity Inside the Atom; April 20--Cosmic Rays...