It's almost as puzzling as the question of 'who discovered milk?' or more appropriately, 'what sicko thought drinking what came out of an udder was a good idea at the time?'
One invention/discovery that always gets me is the humble radio. which absolute brainbox thought 'y'know what, ok gonna send sounds via the medium of invisible waves floating around in the air and process them into actual audible noises using a machine'. originating the thoughts for that technology is mind-boggling. I know it's not eggs or milk but it still blows my fragile little mind.
but when radio was invented, any phones transmitted via wire sent signals. radio was picking up and processing air transmitted waves. bit fancier I think.
the radio has it's roots to the invention of the phone but the radio started after the discovery of electromagnetic waves first used in the telegraph
Another one I couldn't get for a long while was vinyl records. It used to amaze me how they worked, how the bumps and grooves could recreate the music. BTW, I may be 19, but I own more vinyl than CDs and have a record player here at Uni.
your pissing all over the wondrous genius and mysterious dark forces I perceive the concept of radio to have. can we just agree we got the technology from from aliens or a crazy haired mad scientist with 3 brains?
You don't want to study quantum physics then. Only on here could a topic start about a horse tournament being held in a football stadium turn into a debate about the invention of radio waves and quantum physics.
Totally agree with you both on radio and records, I think similar applies to getting crystal clear sound from hedphones. How do all the different sounds get down one wire at the same time? Trees, they're another one. One acorn + fresh air = one oak tree.
For records, it's actually quite simple, someone figured out that a needle would vibrate from the sound waves and scratch the pattern of those vibrations into a surface. Move the needle back across the gouge and it will replay whatever noise created it. Spin a vinyl on your turntable without any speakers plugged in and put your ear to it, you'll hear the needle playing the music. I had to do a gigantic essay on all different sound sources and how they were invented. I forgot about radio by now though, but from memory it's pretty simple too.
an egg doesn't come outta an arse, why do you think only hens lay eggs? give you a clue............... they only lay them once every 4 weeks. Chickens use shells, humans use tampons
The wobbly needle's one thing, but trumpets,guitars drums etc, all go into the wire and then spread out again at the other end. The magic's in the wires man, the wires I tell ya. Now, where's my pitchfork?
It's just transducers (I think) convert the vibrations into an electrical signal, and vice versa at each end. Quite simple. The marvel isn't sound travelling down a wire, as such, the marvel is electricity and it's ability to transfer data. Though if it didn't have that ability, I think there'd barely be a living thing on the planet, possibly some microbes, that'd be it,
humans survived 1900 years without electricity............. I am sure we'd still be alive without it.
