Re: Blumlein's UL Patent

In article <42ea6804.1570000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, donald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Don Pearce) wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:18:42 -0500, jbyrns@xxxxxxx (John Byrns) wrote:
>
> >Everything under the sun
> >wasn't invented in Europe.
>
> But most things subsequently claimed by Americans were.

And European's seem unable to parse a simple English sentence. The claim
was that Blumlein "invented stereo". That seems highly unlikely given
that experiments in binaural and stereo go back quite a way, probably to a
time before Blumlein was working in the field, and no evidence has yet
been presented here that his work might have predated other binaural and
stereo demonstrations.

I think the problem is that people are equating "stereo" with the single
groove stereo disc, which Blumlein may very well have invented, although
like many such inventions there were others working in the field that came
up with the same idea at approximately the same time.

"stereo" does not equal "stereo disk".


Regards,

John Byrns


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