Lost Sounds

Author : Alan Renton
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1870325834

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Lost Sounds visits a number of lighthouses at different times over the last 130 years to reveal the philanthropic, scientific and romantic story of the fog signal - how it came about, how the machinery worked and, for the mariner and the keeper, what it sounded like! The development of fog signals complemented the expansion of lighthouse construction worldwide from the last quarter of the 19th century and represented the attempt to provide a vital navigation aid to mariners when the beam of light from the lighthouse lens was obscured by fog. Lost Sounds reveals the practical development of sound signals from the early percussion instruments to the later succession of compressed-air sirens and diaphones through to the last remaining electric emitters. But it is much more than that - it is a record of another part of maritime history.

Author : Tim Brooks
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252090639

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Lost Sounds by Tim Brooks Pdf

A groundbreaking history of African Americans in the early recording industry, Lost Sounds examines the first three decades of sound recording in the United States, charting the surprising roles black artists played in the period leading up to the Jazz Age and the remarkably wide range of black music and culture they preserved. Drawing on more than thirty years of scholarship, Tim Brooks identifies key black recording artists and profiles forty audio pioneers. Brooks assesses the careers and recordings of George W. Johnson, Bert Williams, George Walker, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, W. C. Handy, James Reese Europe, Wilbur Sweatman, Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Booker T. Washington, and boxing champion Jack Johnson, plus a host of lesser-known voices. Many of these pioneers struggled to be heard in an era of rampant discrimination. Their stories detail the forces––black and white––that gradually allowed African Americans to enter the mainstream entertainment industry. Lost Sounds includes Brooks's selected discography of CD reissues and an appendix by Dick Spottswood describing early recordings by black artists in the Caribbean and South America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Shorthand
ISBN : NYPL:33433033969720

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Munson Phonographic News and Teacher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wilhelm Brambach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Latin language
ISBN : UOM:39015069659301

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Aids to Latin Orthography by Wilhelm Brambach Pdf

Author : Sir Michael Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503288644

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A Text book of physiology by Sir Michael Foster Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Science
ISBN : MSU:31293023096948

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Knowledge by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Fletcher Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : OXFORD:N10603601

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Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia by George Fletcher Moore Pdf

Vocabulary paged separately, entitled A descriptive vocabulary of the language in common use amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia; with copious meanings, embodying much interesting information regarding the habits, manners, and customs of the natives, and the natural history of the country; Comments on the pronunciation; Diary mentions the journey of the Beagle and her officers; Good references to Aborigines along coast.

Author : John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CHI:74713776

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The Eclectic Magazine by John Holmes Agnew,Walter Hilliard Bidwell Pdf

Author : Massachusetts. Board of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Education
ISBN : IOWA:31858045043720

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Annual Report of the Board of Education Together with the ... Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board by Massachusetts. Board of Education Pdf

1st-72nd include the annual report of the Secretary of the Board.

Author : Massachusetts. Board of Education,Massachusetts. Dept. of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Education
ISBN : UIUC:30112051062724

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Annual Report of the Department of Education by Massachusetts. Board of Education,Massachusetts. Dept. of Education Pdf

1st-72nd include the annual report of the Secretary of the Board.

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Devotional calendars
ISBN : PRNC:32101073395335

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Morning and Evening Exercises by Henry Ward Beecher Pdf

Author : Royal institution of Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555024025

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The Journal of the Royal institution of Great Britain. Notices of the proceedings [afterw.] Proceedings of the Royal institution of Great Britain by Royal institution of Great Britain Pdf

Author : Dana Estes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Science
ISBN : PRNC:32101059540243

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Half-hour Recreations in Popular Science by Dana Estes Pdf

Author : John James Piatt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : American poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1P7I

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Landmarks and Other Poems by John James Piatt Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103022331

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Eastern Medical Journal by Anonim Pdf