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[47] Most of the disc machines designed at the Volta Lab had their disc mounted on vertical turntables. The explanation is that in the early experiments, the turntable, with disc, was mounted on the shop lathe, along with the recording and reproducing heads. Later, when the complete models were built, most of them featured vertical turntables. [46]
Two turntables and a microphone" is the basic concept of a DJ's equipment. This phrase describes turntables ( phonographs ) and a microphone connected to a mixer . The DJ uses the mixer's crossfader to fade between two songs playing on the turntables.
Turntablism as it is known today, however, did not surface until the advent of hip hop in the 1970s. Examples of turntable effects can also be found on popular records produced in the 1960s and 1970s. This was most prominent in Jamaican dub music of the 1960s, [6] among deejays in the Jamaican sound system culture.
Edison power plant in Williamsport, Maryland, after the March 18, 1936 flood, surrounded by water from the Potomac River. The facility later became the R. Paul Smith Power Station.
Only Drye survived. "My grief today is unfathomable. I'm sorrowful. I feel broken," Drye said. "But what is the main thing that I take away from grief is the uplifting of all the prayers that I ...
The Seeburg Symphonola "Trashcan" jukebox of 1938 holds 20 10" 78rpm records each in a shallow centreless drawer so that when the selected record's drawer opens, the turntable can rise through the open centre of the drawer to lift the record up to meet the pickup arm at the top of the mechanism, where it plays.
A turntable for the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Turnplates at the Park Lane goods station of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1831. Early wagonways were industrial railways for transporting goods—initially bulky and heavy items, particularly mined stone, ores and coal—from one point to another, most often to a dockside to be loaded onto ships. [4]
ASHEVILLE, N.C. — A historic village in western North Carolina is underwater after experiencing devastating flooding damage from Helene. Tree branches, logs and a dumpster floated across ...