Theremin Players - L on Theremin, Lydia Kavina, Bruce Woolley, Roy Harter, Clara Rockmore, Kumo, Barbara Buchholz, Samuel Hoffman, Shueh-Li Ong (Paperback)

Chapters: L on Theremin, Lydia Kavina, Bruce Woolley, Roy Harter, Clara Rockmore, Kumo, Barbara Buchholz, Samuel Hoffman, Shueh-Li Ong, Meredith Yayanos, Fiona Brice, Pamelia Kurstin, Pietra Wexstun, Natalie Naveira. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 63. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: L on Theremin (born Lev Sergeyevich Termen, Russian: ) (27 August 1896, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire 3 November 1993, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian inventor. He is most famous for his invention of the theremin, the first electronic musical instrument. He is also the inventor of interlace, a technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal, widely used in video and television technology. His invention of "The Thing," an espionage tool, is considered a predecessor of RFID technology. L on Theremin was born Lev Sergeyevich Termen in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire in 1896 into a family of French ancestry. He had a sister named Helena. He started to be interested in electricity at the age of 7, and by 13 he was experimenting with high frequency circuits. In the seventh class of his high school before an audience of students and parents he demonstrated various optical effects using electricity. By the age of 17 he was in his last year of high school and at home he had his own laboratory for experimenting with high frequency circuits, optics and magnetic fields. His cousin, Kirill Fedorovich Nesturkh, then a young physicist, and a singer named Wagz invited him to attend the defense of the dissertation of professor Abram Fedorovich Ioffe. Physics lecturer Vladimir Konstantinovich Lebedinskiy had explained to Theremin the then interesting dispute over Ioffe's work on the electron. On 1913 May 9 Theremin and his cousin attended Ioffe's dissertation defense. Ioffe's subject was on the elementar...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1857