News tagged with alexander graham bell
Team uses high-tech optical technique to pull sound from 125 year old recordings
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have succeeded in using 3D optical scanning technology to effectively lift the voices from 125 year old recordings created by researchers ...
Dec 28, 2011 |
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America expands once again -- digitally, this time
(AP) -- The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual ...
May 19, 2012 |
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Playback: 130-year-old sounds revealed
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the early 1880s, three inventors—Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, collectively making up the Volta Laboratory Associates—brought together their ...
Dec 15, 2011 |
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The birth of electrical engineering
In September 1882, Thomas Edison opened the first commercial power plant in the United States, serving 59 customers in a square mile of Lower Manhattan. That same fall, MIT made electrical history of its own, ...
Mar 09, 2011 |
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New imaging technology enlightened by biomedical engineering
A Faculty of Engineering professor is conducting biomedical research that could have profound effects on medical imaging and the delivery of drugs by using light and ultrasound. Roger Zemp, a professor in ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Listening to ancient colors
A team of McGill chemists have discovered that a technique known as photoacoustic infrared spectroscopy could be used to identify the composition of pigments used in art work that is decades or even centuries old. Pigments ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Seeing melanoma (w/ Video)
Melanoma is one of the less common types of skin cancer but it accounts for the majority of the skin cancer deaths (about 75 percent).
Aug 11, 2010 |
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Carbon Nanotube Speakers Could Be Powered by Lasers, Transform Noisy Spaces into Peaceful Sanctums
(PhysOrg.com) -- A UT Dallas team's study published in the Journal of Applied Physics expands the extraordinary capabilities of nanotechnology to include laser-powered acoustic speakers made from assemblies of car ...
Mar 11, 2010 |
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Researchers identify protein controlling brain formation
Researchers at the University of Toronto have identified a protein which plays a key role in the development of neurons, which could enhance our understanding of how the brain works, and how diseases such as Alzheimer's occur.
Sep 04, 2009 |
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New deep-sea observatory goes live
Off the coast of Central California, in the inky darkness of the deep sea, a bright orange metal pyramid about the size of two compact cars sits quietly on the seafloor. Nestled within the metal pyramid is ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2008 |
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Super-sensitive explosives detector can detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards
Using a laser and a device that converts reflected light into sound, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory can detect explosives at distances exceeding 20 yards.
Jun 26, 2008 |
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