Word: phonographers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collection of over 800 phonograph, recordings has been acquired by Lowell House, through the gift of an anonymous donor...
...fibres which constitute a nerve and splice them into a highly sensitive telegraph set. Whenever such nerves carry messages to (or from) the brain by means of very weak electrical impulses, amplifying tubes in Professor Adrian's device magnify those impulses until he can record them on a phonograph disk or send them sounding from a loud speaker. Magnified, they sound like barks. Professor Adrian understands the noises. A slow, long continued series of barks, for example, may indicate the pain of a burn or ulcer...
Through the generosity of an anonymous donor, a musical library of phonograph recordings has been made possible. Members of the House committee together with A. T. Merritt, Tutor in Music in Eliot House, have already selected the recordings, and an electrical phonograph has been ordered. A room has been set aside in the basement of the library entry in which the records may be played. A special feature of this music room will be a collection of orchestral scores of well-known compositions, to be used with the records...
...baby grand piano and a combination recording phonograph and radio have been placed in the newly opened Adams House music room for the use of House members. The room, on the ground floor of the new Russell Hall, is virtually soundproof, and is the only one of its type in any House...
...library of phonograph records has been begun, and additions will be made from time to time upon recommendation of House members. It is expected that the room will also be used for vocal and instrumental practicing. Organization of an informal House orchestra is being contemplated...