Word: helmholtz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...around an inflatable plastic cushion. It has a soft, seductive tone, can be deflated or patched like an inner tube. "After I invented it, I wanted to know why it worked," he explains. The search led him to Paris' National Library and books of 19th century acousticians, e.g., Helmholtz. Their theoretical discussions flashed through Baschet's teeming imagination and emerged as sounds-new sounds of otherworldly groans, melodious thuds and haunting echoes, which came from the vibrations of two metal spirals plus a plastic resonator. Baschet took his "sound" to a musician friend named Jacques Lasry, who proclaimed...
...courses emphasize the reading of the great classics, as well as the best of scholarly commentaries. Students will learn their biology through Darwin's "Origin of Species," their psychology through the writings of Pavlov. Their physics will include the works of Galileo, Newton, and Von Helmholtz...
...concerned with the development of the individual, and later, when they get into the Reformation, with the individual in relation to God. Their biology may begin with Darwin's Origin of Species, their psychology with the writings of Pavlov; their physics will include the works of Von Helmholtz. Even their foreign languages will be involved in the study of ideas-Voltaire in French, Cervantes in Spanish, Dante in Italian...
...Imports. As rector, Werner Richter hopes to spread his "universal approach." The university he heads was once one of Germany's greatest-a place that boasted such great names as Historian von Treitschke and Physicist von Helmholtz, such alumni as Nietzsche and Carl Schurz. But like other German institutions, it had fallen into rigid habits -a narrow scholarship for narrow specialists...