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A klaxon is a type of an electromechanical horn or alerting device. Mainly used on cars, trains and ships, it produces an easily identifiable sound, often transcribed onomatopoeically in English as "awooga". Like most mechanical horns, it has largely been replaced by solid-state electronic alarms, though the memorable tone has persisted.
Electrical Klaxon horn in 1910. Hutchison was concerned with increased automobile traffic in New York City. An early version of a vehicle speed alarm was not readily adopted. [12] Warning devices at the time were either bells or horns essentially derived from musical instruments. He realized that a more obnoxious sound would serve as a better ...
The Klaxophone is a musical instrument created by American composer Henry Fillmore. Made of twelve car horns, it was created for use in his march The Klaxon: March of the Automobiles, which was composed in 1929 for the 1930 Cincinnati Automobile Show. [1] This piece featured the instrument mounted onto a table and powered by a car battery. [2]
For nearly 200 years, train whistles have been a tool to warn folks to stay off the tracks.
The Klaxon, a 1993 album by English rock band And Also the Trees; Klaxon, an EP by Immi "The Klaxon", a 1930 song composed by Henry Fillmore; Klaxons, an English indie rock band; The Klaxons (Belgian band), a Belgian accordion-based band "Klaxon", a song by K-pop girl group (G)I-dle from their 7th EP I Sway
Horn (heraldry), common features in crests in Scandinavian and German heraldry; Horn family, Swedish noble family from Finland; Horn (surname), including a list of people with the name; Horn, part of a saddle; Hörn, or Freyja, a Norse goddess; Pyramidal peak, sometimes called a glacial horn; The horn, a slang term for telephone
Sirens often use horns to aim the pressure waves. This uses the siren's energy more efficiently by aiming it. Exponential horns achieve similar efficiencies with less material. The frequency, i.e. the cycles per second of the sound of a mechanical siren is controlled by the speed of its rotor, and the number of openings.
The genus of animal-horn instruments to which the shofar belongs is called קרן (keren) in Hebrew, qarnu in Akkadian, and κέρας (keras) in Greek. [2] The olifant or oliphant (an abbreviation of the French cor d'olifant/oliphant, "elephant horn") was the name applied in the Middle Ages to ivory hunting or signalling horns made from ...