Twenty Thousand Hertz: The Gift

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🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

December 24, 1906. It’s Christmas Eve, but inventor Reginald Fessenden is working. Tonight, instead of sending a typical radio message in morse code, he broadcasts something new: music. It's the first in a series of breakthroughs in audio reproduction—a story that takes us from World War II home radios to the acoustics lab of another pioneer: Dr. Amar Bose. How did we get from tapped dots and dashes to the high-quality speakers we use today? This episode comes from the podcast Twenty Thousand Hertz. You can listen to more episodes of Twenty Thousand Hertz at https://apple.co/3pWdq29.

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0:00.0	The History Channel, Original Podcast.
0:30.0	This holiday season, we bring you the very first entertainment radio broadcast courtesy
0:55.0	of another podcast we love, 20,000 Hertz.
0:59.3	To show about the most recognizable and interesting sounds in the world, hosted by Dallas Taylor,
1:06.0	this episode is about the audio revolution, how audio became a form of entertainment
1:10.8	broadcast around the world, and about the extraordinary life of another pioneer whose name became
1:16.6	synonymous with sound, Dr. Amar Bose.
1:21.4	We'll be back next week with a new episode of History this week.
1:24.8	Until then, we hope you enjoy this episode of 20,000 Hertz, The Gift.
1:37.6	Bleep
1:56.6	these a file again and save, already saved.
1:59.4	Oh, thanks.
2:00.4	Saved it again.
2:05.8	Just here, this can go cancel out.
2:08.6	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
2:11.4	I'm Dallas Taylor.
2:12.6	The horse eats no cucumber salad.
2:19.6	According to many accounts, the horse eats no cucumber salad
2:23.4	where the first words transmitted through electronic reproduction.
2:27.0	This was way, way back in 1861 by Johann Philippe Rice.
2:31.5	He was developing an early version of the telephone.
2:34.7	Before then, sound could only travel long distances
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