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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Apr 15, 2010
GT, are we looking for someone who "invented" the speaker, or who came up with the concept which lead to the speaker being invented?
Was this person contemporaneous with Bell?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 16, 2010
The chap I am looking for was some 25 years older than Bell, but he linked electromagnets and the vibrations produced creating sounds, yes!
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Rod Posted Apr 17, 2010
Perchance Wimshurst? (the name took a bit of digging out of the murky grey matter>
His rotating discs which, I think I recall from school, make noises other than those, er, related to the bearings.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 17, 2010
No Rod..
It is a German chap we are looking for!
(clue there!)
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Rod Posted Apr 17, 2010
german chap, eh?
Manfred, Mannheim, Mannverderjob?
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 17, 2010
Not him either!!
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Argon0 (50 and feeling it - back for a bit) Posted Apr 19, 2010
Heinrich Hertz? (already mentioned him).
For some reason I'm thinking of Ernest Rutherford - but he's not German...
Maybe one of Hertz's pupils?
Darn... Von LautSpracher?
German - german companies to do with electicity/electronics
Bose? Siemens? Blaupunkt? (no not a family name) Braun?
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Rob Posted Apr 26, 2010
Is the German's name Johann Philipp Reis
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 26, 2010
Sorry Rob, nope!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 26, 2010
Totally wrong century!!!!
Kepler LONG before electrickery!!!
And a 
-5 to boot!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 26, 2010
Who??? Taff??
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Apr 26, 2010
dopler him of the effect when sound comes from a moving object
ne naw ne naw NE NAW NE NAW Ne Nooo ne noo
dolby
him of the sound system, stereo
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Apr 30, 2010
Looks like this one is dying a death!!!
Any more takers???
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Rod Posted May 1, 2010
You called, sir?
This chap's been bouncing around me 'ead for some time.
So, just to quiet him down
Gauss
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted May 1, 2010
Gauss??
Him of Magnetism fame???
Sorry, No!!
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Rod Posted May 2, 2010
Yeah, magnetism.
One subsequent development includes demagnetising ships (or did during the days of magnetic mines).
It seems my subconscious was playing games again.
Warning to all: don't trust the voices when they speak QIish
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logicus tracticus philosophicus Posted May 3, 2010
Think the speaker was Edisons idea (has a lot to answer for given he also invented the electronic vote calculator)did a lot of early dragons den type work, pissed of tessler a fair bit as well..silly man
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