Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

Modern vehicles always warn the driver about impending danger and can even take partial control in emergencies. ABS helps retain wheel traction during sudden braking, while cruise control allows you ...

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(Original Caption) Photo shows the "Theremin," one of the first electronic musical instruments, invented by professor Theremin, a Russian scientist from Leningrad. Photo shows the invention as it ...

Chemistry and physics differ not only in the scales of the systems they study but also in the scales of the instruments they use for research. Physicists and astronomers work on some large projects ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...