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| | Dead Media:Working Note 47.3:Comments |
 | | This device is an "oscillograph", built by Westinghouse in, I believe, 1927. |
 | | The oscillograph is an oscilloscope-like device that does not use a cathode-ray tube or electronic components, but operates optically-mechanically and electrically (for illumination, motor, and vibration). |
 | | It shines a projection bulb, which picks up a "cross-hairs" targeting image, through 7 small prisms to adjustable mirrors mounted on top of 7 vibrating galvanometers, each of which is connected by the user to input signals of the respective frequencies to be studied, via pairs of binding posts on the sides of the machines. |
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