Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

Saturday, September 24, 2011

The History of Magnets

Magnets are magical objects having magnetic fields that can hold things together. The magnetic fields attract metallic bits and pieces like clips, pins, hair and other similar objects.

It is believed that ancient Greeks are the strongest competitors who discovered magnets. They were the first who observed lodestone attracted iron bits. Other version says that they discovered magnetites in Turkey. Thales who lived in Greece is known as the first human who studied magnets. He studied the nature of magnets why they attracted each other.

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On the contrary, Chinese also used magnetic stones at that time and historians believe that they used it for manufacture compass. Magnets also appeared in an ancient place in Macedonia called Magnesia. Even till this day, the Chinese use magnets for healing which they call magnetic therapy. The Romans used to catch electric eels and they used it to cure arthritis and gout. During the middle ages, the alchemists claimed that they used magnets for curing sadness, baldness and arthritis.

A Swedish scientist named Swedenborg studied the differences in the middle of a magnetic object and a non magnetic one in 1734. Magnetite was the first magnetic substance that was ever known. A French, named Louis Neel had challenged Swedenborg and came up with a ideas on ferromagnestism. Magnets have five types namely bar, lodestone, horse, ring and button. They are classified agreeing to their separate shapes and sizes. Others are made of iron and rock.

Magnets have made our lives easy and comfortable.. They are used in manufacture microphones, electric motors, Tv sets, computer monitors, speakers and much more. Magnetic compasses are also used in ships to keep them on right track. Jewelry and tools also have magnets. A television set has magnetic chips in their Crts. A magnetic field is formed and with an electronic process images can be seen on the screen. Computer discs are also coated with iron which creates magnetic field and allows the disc to store data. In the field of transportation, magnets are used in bullet train tracks. Atm card or credit cards also have magnetic strip. Magnets are really crucial in our lives today.

The History of Magnets

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Friday, September 23, 2011

History of galvanic Guitars

The guitar is a beloved string instrument. It produces sound when the strings along the face are plucked. It used to be looked upon as a proverbial instrument linked with chivalrous courtship. String instruments existed prior to the guitar. The first documented description on the guitar is in the 14th century chronicles. In its preliminary form, it had three duplicate courses of strings and sometimes a particular string. The guitar probably originated in Spain, nearby the 16th century. It was a collective requirement for entertainment among the middle and lower classes.

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The 16th and 17th centuries saw the guitar become beloved in other European countries. By the late 17th century, a fifth string was added on, below the other four. The guitar attained its contemporary look by the mid-18th century. This happened when the duplicate courses were made particular and a sixth string was added, above the lower five. Guitar makers in the 19th century broadened the body, increased the bow of the waist, flattened the belly and changed the internal holders. The contemporary engine head supplanted the old wooden tuning pegs.

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Adolph Rickenbacker invented the electric guitar in 1930. The guitar can be traced to the Greek "kithara", but there is no similarity in the buildings or sound of the two instruments. The sound of the electric guitar strings is both amplified and manipulated electronically by the performer. The American musician and inventor developed prototypes for the solid-bodied electric guitar.

Electric guitars gained popularity with the growth in number of rock and roll bands. The electric guitars became necessary, to compete with the loud large brass sections, generally used in jazz orchestras, especially the Big Bands, in the thirties and forties.

Electric guitars have evolved from being simple, hollow arch top bodies, to state- of- the- art music equipment.

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

A Brief History Of The galvanic Guitar

The Electric guitar hasn't been around nearly as long as the Acoustic and Classical guitars. In fact, the Electric guitar was created just 70 years ago (the 1930s) by Adolph Rickenbacker. Since that time, the Electric guitar has greatly evolved to the where it is today. In this article, we'll go over the history of the Electric guitar.

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The History

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Guitars, or similar instruments, have been around for thousands of years. The Electric guitar was first manufactured in the 1930s by Rickenbacker. Traditional Electric guitars used tungsten pickups. Pickups basically convert the vibration of the strings into electrical current, which is then fed into the amplifier to produce the sound.

The very earliest Electric guitars featured smaller soundholes in the body. These guitars are known as semi-hollow body Electric guitars and still are somewhat popular today, in general due to the fact that they are flexible guitars.

However, with the use of pickups, it was inherent to originate guitars without soundholes (like the Acoustic and Classical guitars have) that still had the potential to be heard, if plugged into amplifiers. These guitars are called solid body Electric guitars.

The Electric guitar's popularity began to increase while the Big Band era of the '30s and 40s. Due to the loudness of the brass sections in jazz orchestras, it was necessary to have guitars that could be heard above the sections. Electric guitars, with the potential to be plugged into amplifiers, filled this void.

The Electric guitar that is most prevalent today is the solid body Electric guitar. The solid body guitar was created by musician and inventor Les Paul in 1941. It is a guitar made of solid wood with no soundholes. The Traditional solid body guitar created by Paul was very plain--it was a simple rectangular block of wood linked to a neck with six steel strings. Les Paul's Traditional solid body guitar shape has, of course, changed from the Traditional rectangular shape to the more rounded shape Les Paul guitars have today.

During the 1950s, Gibson introduced Les Paul's invention to the world. The Gibson Les Paul, as it was and still is called, quickly became a very popular Electric guitar. It has remained the most popular guitar for 50 years.

Around the same period of time, someone else inventor named Leo Fender came up with a solid body Electric guitar of his own. In the late 1940s, Fender introduced the Fender Broadcaster Electric guitar. The Broadcaster, which was renamed the Stratocaster, was officially introduced to the social in 1954. The Strat, as it is now known, was a very distinct guitar in comparison to the Les Paul. It had a distinct shape, distinct hardware and was significantly lighter. Fender's Stratocaster Electric guitar is the second most popular guitar in the world, second to only the Les Paul.

Over the years, other companies, such as Ibanez, Jackson, Paul Reed Smith, Esp and Yamaha have all produced solid body Electric guitars of their own. However, most Electric guitars still highlight the well-known shape of a Les Paul or Strat guitar.

A Brief History Of The galvanic Guitar

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