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Compressed Air Sound Amplification?
I must confess I don't see how this could work well. And from accounts included, it didn't reproduce music all that well. It was, however, LOUD.
One can understand how vacuum tube amplifiers were seen as preferable...
J.
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There was a very funny segment in Neal Stephenson’s ‘Cryptonomicon’ about someone devising a digital computer based on compressed air flows in tuned pipes instead of electronic tubes. (The character was a brilliant mathematician, an organist -- and a little unhinged.)
It worked (for the purposes of the story, anyway), but did secondary duty breaking the will of Japanese prisoners of war. Put ‘em in the room next door to the computer for a few hours and they would sing. (Or write notes, actually.)
Posted by F451 | November 27, 2007 1:45 PM
Posted on November 27, 2007 13:45
LITTLE unhinged? The idea of a digital air-powered computer... that's a Home Depot short of being 'hinged'.
Obviously I'm going to have to get that book...
J.
Posted by JLawson | November 28, 2007 11:16 AM
Posted on November 28, 2007 11:16