COM 114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Faraday Cage, Electrical Network, Roy Acuff
5 Jul 2016
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The trajectory if popular music and audio technology. Exam: 40 multiple choice roughly 50/50 on textbooks and lecture. Categories of sound and music tech: recording and distribution. Telegraph: storage capabilities are limited to the recording of the message by hand on paper, unlike storage capabilities of modern technology: broadcast. When we talked about the first mass medium of cultures, we talked about how greeks and romans built theatres that naturally amplified sound. The farther sound travels, the faster it degrades. The trick is to figure out how to compensate for that. People will create technology and improve upon it until it reaches its limit and then they have to move on. All of these do not occur linearly. Major leaps in science: mid-1600s discovery of static electricity that could be created with a charger, early 1700s gray made current jump across open space and be captured (b. franklin"s experiment) Demonstrated the fact that electricity can flow through air.
