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Georges Marcel Charles Jenny (29 April 1913 – 23 September 1975) [1] was a French musician, poet, and electronic instrument builder. His best-known invention was an electronic keyboard instrument called the Ondioline (sometimes referred to as the Jenny Ondioline). [ 2 ]
The Ondioline is an electronic analog synthesizer, developed and built by Frenchman Georges Jenny. [1] Sometimes referred to as the "Jenny Ondioline," the instrument is considered a forerunner of the synthesizer. First conceived by Jenny in 1939, he continued refining and reconfiguring the device, producing dozens of variant models up until his ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. Multi-spool spinning frame Model of spinning jenny in the Museum of Early Industrialisation, Wuppertal, Germany. The spinning jenny is a multi- spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialisation of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial ...
In 1941, Georges Jenny's previously prototyped Ondioline became the first truly portable synthesizer keyboard [11] (the Novachord weighed over 500 pounds (230 kg)). More developments were made with the Chamberlin Music Maker in late 1940s and the Mellotron in the early 1950s, which employed mechanisms to play back recordings at speeds that ...
1938 : Georges Jenny develops the Ondioline; 1938 : Benjamin B. Baur of Shure Bros. engineers a single microphone element to produce a cardioid pickup pattern (it picks up less sounds from the sides of the microphone, reducing unwanted sound pickup) 1939 : Homer W. Dudley invented the Parallel Bandpass Vocoder
In it, George Costanza, played by Jason Alexander, talks about the ridiculous, anti-Christmas holiday his father, Frank, made up when he was a kid. ... Dan's father invented the holiday for the ...
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
From ancient history to the modern day, the clitoris has been discredited, dismissed and deleted -- and women's pleasure has often been left out of the conversation entirely. Now, an underground art movement led by artist Sophia Wallace is emerging across the globe to challenge the lies, question the myths and rewrite the rules around sex and the female body.