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...give off ions (electrified particles) when heated to high temperature. At one end of the lonophone's quartz tube is a small quartz cylinder with a coating that contains fine particles of platinum. When the platinum is heated electrically to about 1,000° C., it fills the horn-shaped cavity above it with a cloud of rapidly zigzagging ions. The ion cloud responds almost instantly to changes in the strength of a high-frequency electric field around the little quartz cylinder, and the cloud's expansion and contraction set up sound waves. When a current carrying music...
...work at full efficiency, the lonophone requires a large horn, but even the table model is a remarkable improvement on conventional loudspeakers. It is sensitive, Klein says, to sound waves up to 400,000 cycles per second. (The average human ear can hear only about 16,000 cycles, and the average home loudspeaker does not work well above...
From the moment he arrived in the U.S. from New Malden, Surrey two years ago, a 42-year-old Briton named William George Philpot began wondering what he could do about an American trait that bothered him. At every traffic light someone behind him honked a horn. Five weeks ago in Detroit, Philpot ordered a metal sign. He bolted it to the rear of his car and set forth. The honking stopped. Last week, as a final test, he drove through clangorous Manhattan. Even there, the sign worked. Philpot sighed with relief, and set out in his self-made zone...
...same regiment that was wiped out under Custer, at the Little Big Horn...
...this that Jews call the ten days the Yamin Noraim-the Days of Fear. But when the trumpet call of the ram's-horn shofar has split the air for the last time on Yom Kippur, the mood traditionally changes to one of joy and hope. The New Year has indeed begun...