In the early years of electrification, when electricity was beginning to shape the modern world, this new technology was being put to use in many more places than turning motors and providing lighting ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

(Original Caption) Photo shows the "Theremin," one of the first electronic musical instruments, invented by professor Theremin, a Russian scientist from Leningrad. Photo shows the invention as it ...

The Telharmonium was revealed to the world in the early 1900s. This extremely heavy (as in, around 210 tons) organ-like instrument utilized electromagnetic generators, which rotated to produce pulses ...

MACUNGIE, Pa. - Allen Organ in Macungie is celebrating 85 years in business in the Lehigh Valley. It was founded in 1937 by Jerome Markowitz, who created the first electronic analogue organ. "Analogue ...