freecounterpoint: Let's go to Paris and celebrate the jet's centennial!

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Let's go to Paris and celebrate the jet's centennial!

6 comments:

Mr roT said...: When are the French celebrating their invention of the telephone?; 9/12/2010 4:27 AM
Tecumseh said...: On September 28:

In 1854 Charles Bourseul, a French telegrapher, published a plan for conveying sounds and even speech by electricity in the magazine L'Illustration (Paris). Bourseul's ideas were also published in Didaskalia (Frankfurt am Main) on September 28, 1854: "Suppose", he explained, “that a man speaks near a movable disc sufficiently flexible to lose none of the vibrations of the voice; that this disc alternately makes and breaks the currents from a battery: you may have at a distance another disc which will simultaneously execute the same vibrations.... It is certain that, in a more or less distant future, speech will be transmitted by electricity. I have made experiments in this direction; they are delicate and demand time and patience, but the approximations obtained promise a favourable result."; 9/12/2010 7:56 AM
Mr roT said...: Intersting Bourseul. Similarly to Coanda, he was an early developer of the wrong approach to something.

The make-break current phone and the thermojet.

We'll have to wait till 2054 for Bourseul's bicentenary, unfortunately.; 9/12/2010 9:53 AM
Tecumseh said...: Just hang in there till then, willya? At any rate, why not visit Paris? You ever been there. Beats those dreary, dank Deutsch burgs.; 9/12/2010 10:21 AM
Mr roT said...: Paris: People smell terrible, Tecs! I told ya!

Hannover. Love dank towns if they're full of biergarten!

But wtf's going on with these langsam elektronen in the Net? Jeez, it's like 20 minutes to upload a brilliant comment rehashing your views on the Balkan War.; 9/12/2010 10:28 AM
Tecumseh said...: Electrons hate you. Face it.; 9/12/2010 2:25 PM

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