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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This machine is sensitive to sounds within the range of 50 to 10,000 vibrations per second, which is equivalent to about eight octaves. The most sensitive human ear can register sounds as low as 20 cycles and as high as 20,000 cycles, a range of about 10 octaves. The seven and one-half octaves, on a piano reach from 27 to 4176 cycles, while the greatest extent of human voice is 80 to 1950 cycles, or only about three and one-half octaves...
...thus possible to analyses sounds of both higher and lower pitch than the human voice, as well as sounds more than an octave higher than the piano...
...forever," the Bishop of Southwark boomed, "but today if the position of Jews cannot be compared to that of slaves in Germany it can be compared to that of helots! We have heard Goebbels describe the Jews as vermin. It is not good for any nation to regard any human whatever as vermin. It is worse for the nation . . . than for the persons they are urged to treat this...
Flutes have been made of wood, bamboo, ivory, jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal...
...years the Widow Maupas worked to clear her dead husband's name. Last year a court especially constituted to review such cases ruled that the 21st had been pushed beyond the limits of human endurance, declared that the executed corporals had been valiant men, awarded their widows damages of one franc each. Meantime General Réveilhac had retired to his fine country estate, been made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, died...