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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!tous!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Help!
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:39:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.223929.19874@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov14.202759.15031@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <7490250@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
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- In article <7490250@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
- >> Could somebody tell me the names of the inventors of:
-
- >> The record
-
- >Thomas A. Edison.
-
- OOOHHH!!!!! It's nit-picking time again! (Don't pick that nit, it
- will never heal).
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- While the erstwhile Tom Edison is know for having invented the
- phonograph, he did not invent the record. His phonograph used
- cylinders.
-
- Emile Berliner invented the 'flat disk' as we know it today. Tom sued
- Emile - and the battle went on for a couple of years, but when Emile
- won the suit, he named his record company after this victorious
- decision - he call it Victor! (Always kick a man when he's down, it
- gives him a chance to rise again :-) )
-
- Emile also invented that wonderful device that we all know and low so
- well - the microphone.
-
- Now for today's trivia question. Which of today's musical instruments
- is a decendant of the sackbut.
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-
- >> The 8-track
-
- >Don't know.
-
- Try Lear - not the one that was the producer of "All in the Family",
- but the Lear of "Lear Jet" fame.
-
- >> The cassette
- >
- >Phillips (or more properly, a group of engineers at Phillips - whose name
- >is on the patent, I don't know.)
-
- >> The CD (phillips & sony?)
-
- >Yup.
-
- Ah, what the heck. Two out of four isnt' that bad. If you were a
- major league batter you'd be world famous!
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