Article ID: CBB001320382

The Electrical Imagination: Sound Analogies, Equivalent Circuits, and the Rise of Electroacoustics, 1863--1939 (2013)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Klobas, Mark
Galili, Doron
Murmann, J. P.
Yeang, Chen-Pang
Wittje, Roland
Welsh, Caroline
Concepts
Music
Acoustics
Physics
Electricity; magnetism
Technology
Metaphors; analogies
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
Germany
Great Britain
United States
France
England
Switzerland
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