AtD: The Parsons-Short Auxetophon

[Robin Landseadel]

Ran across this image while looking for variations on Nipper, HMV's  
classic logo. This has to be the most Art Noveau turntable of all  
time, No wonder the luscious Ecstatica Madame Eskimoff favors this  
design:

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/auxetophone/parsons1a.jpg

	“Be it known that I, Horace Lenoard Short, a subject of the
	Queen of Great Britain, residing at New Malden, in the county of
	Surrey, England, have invented certain new and useful
	Improvements in Sound-Increasing Devices; and I do hereby
	declare the following to be a full, clear and exact description of
	the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to
	which it appertains to make and use the same.” -----------Text of
	US Letters of Patent No. 677476, applied for on April 29, 1899
	and granted July 2, 1901, lines 1-11 . . .

http://www.angelfire.com/nc3/talkingmachines/auxetophone.html

Possibly more than you ever really wanted to know about the Parsons- 
Short-Auxetophone:

	". . . Left: The dreaded Auxetophone ready to open fire on a
	defenceless audience. . . "

http://tinyurl.com/yk2uje41