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Acoustic headphones
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Curt A
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Acoustic headphones
These were probably a little hard to use...
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"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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phonosandradios
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Re: Acoustic headphones
Useful in the days before radar in WW1. On the south coast of England there are a series of large concrete sound mirrors which took it to a whole new level and were to help detect aircraft in the distance. They still exist today.
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Curt A
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Re: Acoustic headphones
Those are interesting... where are they located?
"The phonograph is not of any commercial value."
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife
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Frisco The Beagle
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Re: Acoustic headphones
I wonder if those concrete sound mirrors have ever used as amphitheaters?
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Re: Acoustic headphones
These ones are located in the county of Kent near to Denge, Dungeness -although there are others elsewhere in the UK along the coast. Here are some links to you tube videos about them.Curt A wrote:Those are interesting... where are they located?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB5C1OMloeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fKW-bnubr8
I am interested in all forms of audio media including: gramophones, phonographs, wire recorders, the tefifon, reel to reel tapes, radiograms and radios.