Handbook for Sound Engineers

xx Contributors Ralph Heinz Ralph Heinz joined Renkus-Heinz in 1990 with a background in mechanical engi- neering. Very quickly ...

Contributors xxi Doug Jones Doug Jones has worked in recording and small-room acoustics for more than 20 years and still consult ...

xxii Contributors Peter Mapp, BSc, MSc, FIOA, FASA, FAES, CPhys, CEng, MinstP, FinstSCE MIEE. Peter Mapp is principal of Peter M ...

Contributors xxiii Eugene T. Patronis, Jr. Eugene T. Patronis, Jr. is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Georgia Institute of ...

xxiv Contributors (1991, Sams). He has written over 2,500 articles for audio magazines and is contributing editor, columnist, an ...

Contributors xxv numerous papers and book chapters, has been granted four patents, and is the co-author (with Thomas P. Barnwell ...

xxvi Contributors Hans-Peter Tennhardt Hans-Peter Tennhardt was born in Annaberg/Erzgebirge, Germany in 1942. From 1962–1968, Mr ...

Contributors xxvii consulting work as time permits. In his leisure time, Bill enjoys travel, hiking, music, and restoring vintag ...

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3 Chapter 1 Audio and Acoustic DNA—Do You Know Your Audio and Acoustic Ancestors? by Don and Carolyn Davis Introduction......... ...

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Audio and Acoustic DNA—Do You Know Your Audio and Acoustic Ancestors? 5 Introduction This chapter is the DNA of my ancestors, th ...

6 Chapter 1 James Clerk Max- well was a youthful friend of Faraday and a mathematical genius on a level with New- ton. Maxwell t ...

Audio and Acoustic DNA—Do You Know Your Audio and Acoustic Ancestors? 7 Dr. Michael I. Pupin of Columbia University was present ...

8 Chapter 1 George A. Campbell (1870–1954) of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, had by 1899 developed suc- cessful “loading coils ...

Audio and Acoustic DNA—Do You Know Your Audio and Acoustic Ancestors? 9 Harvey Fletcher (1884–1981) In 1933, Harvey Fletcher, St ...

10 Chapter 1 Negative Feedback—1927 In 1927 Harold S. Black, while watching a Hudson River ferry use reverse propellers to dock, ...

Audio and Acoustic DNA—Do You Know Your Audio and Acoustic Ancestors? 11 Bell Labs and Talking Motion Pictures Bell Telephone La ...