Wittje, Roland (2013) The Electrical Imagination: Sound Analogies, Equivalent Circuits, and the Rise of Electroacoustics, 1863-1939. OSIRIS, 28 (1). pp. 40-63. ISSN 0369-7827, 1932-8287
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The transformation of acoustics into electroacoustics in the early twentieth century was brought about by at least two significant changes in the mechanical world of acoustics. Electrical technologies entered the acoustics laboratory and profoundly changed the research practices therein. At the same time, electrodynamic theory and electric circuit design advanced rapidly to replace mechanical conceptions as the explanatory basis for the physical sciences. Equivalent-circuit diagrams facilitated a reductionist representation as well as the design of real circuits for electric generation and manipulation of sound by translating acoustic problems into electric systems. Consequently, electroacoustics became more than a research technology and evolved from a laboratory practice into a new way of thinking and talking about sound.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ; |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 100 Philosophy |
| Divisions: | Philosophy, Art History, History, and Humanities > Institut für Philosophie Philosophy, Art History, History, and Humanities > Institut für Philosophie > Lehrstuhl für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christoph Meinel |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2020 11:33 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Apr 2020 11:33 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/17340 |
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