borasky@ogicse.ogi.edu (M. Edward Borasky) (12/26/90)
In article <1990Dec25.144305.8590@cs.umn.edu> thornley@cs.umn.edu (David H. Thornley) writes: >In article <10340@darkstar.ucsc.edu> foetus@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (71030000) writes: >>Back in the days when a telephone switchboard (or even Thaddius Cahills >>fabled Tellharmonium) was the most complicated, technologically >>advanced task machine, people compared that to a brain. I'm impressed! Thaddeus Cahill's Telharmonium? I haven't heard that mentioned in years. I'm going to take this thread (eventually) to "comp.music"; that's what the Telharmonium was. By the way, anybody remember the Hammond organ? The one that generated sound with tone wheels? Guess whose patents were involved? Yup, Thaddeus Cahill, circa 1895! I was unaware, though, that people of the day compared the Telharmonium to the brain. Was this a problem for Babbage as well?