Audio Collection (#6)

1920s television system, diagram. This is the television system used by the Scottish engineer John Logie Baird (1888-1946), and first demonstrated in 1926

Early field telephone. Historical artwork of a 19th century field telephone. Telephone technology was developed by Alexander Graham Bell by 1876

DVD media, computer artwork

Compact disc with light interference patterns
Compact disc. Photograph of an audio compact disc. The CD stores music as a series of fine depressions, representing a digitised musical signal capable of being read by a laser

Compact discs with light interference patterns
Compact discs. Photograph of several audio compact discs (CD). The CD stores music as a series of fine depressions, representing a digitised musical signal capable of being read by a laser

Headphones
MODEL RELEASED. Headphones. Computer artwork of the face of a man wearing headphones

Magnetic pickup cartridge of a record player. The cartridge holds the stylus or needle (not seen), which transforms the grooves in a record (black, lower centre) into sound

Audio compact disc
Photograph of an audio compact disc (CD), showing the multicoloured interference pattern produced by reflecting a laser beam off of the CDs surface

Frets on an electric guitar

Music CDs (compact discs)

Music CD cases
Music CD (compact disc) cases

Dismantled loudspeaker. This is a device that is designed to convert electrical signals into sound waves. The two fixed components are the permanent magnet (black)

Microphone

CD drive, coloured X-ray
CD drive. Coloured X-ray of a compact disc (CD) drive from a computer. A disc is in the sliding tray at bottom. This will retract into the machine

Tin can telephone being used by two boys. The boy at left is speaking into one of the cans, and the sound waves are being transmitted along the string to the other can

Edison phonograph - 1889
Edison phonograph. Prominent Frenchmen including Jules Janssen, who made the first film recording of the transit of Venus, testing an Edison phonograph in April 1889

Compact disc (CD) in its case. CDs digitally store music and other data as tiny depressions coated with a fine film of metal

Cochlear implant, artwork
Cochlear implant. Artwork of a section through the outer and inner ear showing a cochlear implant, a prosthetic hearing device

Inner ear, artwork. The cochlea (left) is a hollow spiral that contains microscopic hairs that respond to sound vibrations from the middle ear

Edison and his phonograph. Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931, centre), US inventor, operating his favourite invention, the phonograph. This machine was used to record and play back sounds

Record surface, SEM
Record surface. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of grooves on the surface of a record. The grooves in the plastic vary in shape

Record stylus playing record, SEM
Record stylus playing record. Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the needle (stylus) of a record player in a groove on a record

Microphones, mounted on stands

Speaker cabinet

Loudspeaker apparatus, 19th century
Loudspeaker apparatus, as constructed in the laboratory of the French physicist Henri Becquerel (1852-1908). This apparatus includes a Ruhmkorff coil (induction coil)

Record surface, light micrograph
Normarski differential interference contrast (DIC) light micrograph of the surface of a vinyl record, showing the grooves

Reading a CD, artwork
Reading a CD. Computer artwork of a laser being used to read a CD or DVD. The digital information (centre) on the disc is read by the laser (far left)

Sensory hair cell in the ear, artwork
Sensory hair cell in the ear. Artwork showing a section through part of the cochlea, the inner ears auditory sense organ. The hair-like cells (grey) at upper centre are stereocilia

Bluetooth device, artwork
Bluetooth device, computer artwork

Telegraphone, early 20th century
Telegraphone, early 20th-century artwork. This sound-recording device was invented in 1898 by the Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen (1869-1942)

Exhibition of Bells telephone, 1876
Exhibition of Bells telephone. Patented in March 1876 by the Scottish-US inventor Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), this telephone is on display at the Centennial Exposition

Human ear, artwork
Human ear. Artwork of the pinna, the external part of the ear

DH-4 aeroplane radio. This view of the aeroplane cockpit shows the installation of a radio set on a DH-4 (De Havilland 4) model

Laser reading digital pits on a CD / DVD
Computer artwork showing light emitted by a laser diode being focussed onto a compact disc by a small lens. The metal disc underneath is etched by a laser beam to produce the microscopic pits which

Vinyl record. This is a 33rpm LP

Ear, artwork
Ear. Computer artwork of the middle and inner ear. The middle ear includes the ear bones (ossicles, green), the ear canal (auditory canal, orange) and the ear drum (tympanic membrane, yellow)

Brain with headphones, artwork
Brain with headphones, computer artwork

Cingulate gyrus in the brain, artwork
Temporal lobe in the brain. Computer artwork of a persons head showing the left hemisphere of the brain inside. The highlighted area shows the left temporal lobe

Chevrolet Corvette Z06

Whangarei Falls, Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand

Antarctic, South Georgia Island King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonica) portrait, close-up of open bill

Researchers towing a blue hydrophone cable to monitor sounds made by cetaceans
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