WCAU PHOTONAE&MP 88.012 Music Recording - Electronic ca. 1935 [schematic diagram - no text] Original Caption by Science Service
Additional Information: The "Syntronic Organ" (1934) & The "Photona" (1935) Syntronic Organ was an electro-optical tone generator based instrument engineered by Ivan Eremeef and L. Stokowski and was able to produce "one-hour of continuous variation" created by an optically generated tone using films of tone-wheels. Ivan Eremeef later created the "Photona" a 12 electro-optical tone generator based system, developed at WCAU radio, Philadelphia, USA. Courtesy - 120 years of electronic music - http://www.obsolete.com |
