The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00056
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2024
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28 THETALKIES will not make it possible eventually to reproduce sound with perfection and completeness which will surpass the wildest dreams of past workers. The fact of the matter is that the gramophonerecord people are up against a vicious circle of problems ; if they get one solved, they find that it is extraordinarily difficult to solve another, so that they have to compromise and do each job as well as they dare without upsetting the others. The main reasons for this state of affairs are not obscure scientific notions, but perfectly ordinary facts, and are therefore worth considering here. Sound is caused by something vibrating — it does not matter if it is a telegraph wire humming a tune to itself on a windy day, or the paper cone of a wireless loudspeaker. As soon as you vibrate something so that it stirs up the surrounding air more than sixteen times a second, you produce a sound. The slower you vibrate, the lower the note you produce — sixteen vibrations a second will produce those great booming notes from the huge 64-foot pipes of a big organ ; they are, in fact, so low that one can almost feel them rather than hear them. The whole question of what sound is has tickled the imagination of scientists for many a century. There have always been inquisitive literal-minded