ATDTDA (33) - p. 942-8 pregnant in Bulgaria

[Henry]

The day the silents died: 
http://history.sandiego.edu/GEN/recording/motionpicture1.html 

1910 - Eugene A. Lauste was born in Paris in 1857, worked at Edison's Orange
N.J. lab 1887-1892 under W.K.L. Dickson, joined Major Woodville Latham 1894
to develop the Eidoloscope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidoloscope ), a
wide film projector that used the Latham loop, first exhibited publicly in
May 1894 in New York. While working for Edison, Lauste read a Scientific
American 1881 article about Bell's Photophone
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophone ) and sought to use this method to
record sound on 35mm motion picture film. He applied for a patent in England
on Aug. 11, 1906, and granted in 1910, for a "new and improved method of and
means for simultaneously recording and reproducing movements and sounds."
(Fielding p. 173). His first device used a mechanical grate, then mirrors,
and by 1910 developed a light gate of a vibrating silicon wire between two
magnets. Lauste made many sound films 1910-1914, but was halted by the war.


HENRY MUSIKAR
Information, Media, and Technology Consultant

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu 

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On Fri, 30 May 2008 (09:53:28 -0400), Laura (kelber at mindspring.com) wrote:

> Sleepcoat: "Except that the music stopped two years ago." Any thoughts,
anyone, on what stopped the music?

That would be 1910 -- why would the music stop in 1910?

[According to the The Pynchon Grid
(http://ic.ucsc.edu/~ksgruesz/ltel190f/PynchonGrid.htm) (and the Pynchon
Wiki:
http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=ATD_946-975),
the current narrative time is 1912.]







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