Telharmonium
Telarmonio
- Date
- 1897 · confidence medium
- Place
- Washington, D.C., United States
- Credited to
- Thaddeus Cahill
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
The first electromechanical musical instrument: it generated sounds using toothed tonewheels and transmitted the electrical signal by wire to receiving horn speakers; developed by Thaddeus Cahill.
What it led to
- The Hammond organ and electromechanical additive synthesis
- The origin of wired background-music transmission (a precursor of Muzak)
- Development of synthesizers based on electrical sound generation