Rockin’ Patent – “Generating And Distributing Music”
Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 580,035 Filed: 4 February 1897 In the name of: Thaddeus Cahill (inventor) Title: Art Of And Apparatus For Generating And Distributing Music Electronically What’s claimed: “In an electrical music-generating system, the method of producing composite musical sounds electrically, which consists in (a) producing by induction, in different closed circuits, electric-current undulations corresponding to different component sounds of the composite musical sound desired; (b) synthesizing in a conductor resultant undulations out of the undulations produced, as above mentioned, in a plurality of closed circuits; and (c) translating the built-up electrical undulations into comprise aerial vibrations of similar wave form.” Why this patent rocks: A remarkable patent and invention, which relates to the telharmonium (also known as the dynamophone). The patent […]
