Video of Harvey Fletcher being interviewed by Bruce Bogert at
Bell Labs (circa 1963).
This material is discussed in:
Harvey Fletcher's role in the creation of communication acoustics
J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 1996, April, Vol. 99, pp 1825--1839.
This 28 minute video proceeds as follows (some excerpts are truncated):
Part1
- Introduction (00:06)
- Short story about coyote (00:32)
- Millikan and the Oil drop experiment (01:35)
Part2
- Acoustics (7:49)
- Audiometry and Alfred DuPont's desk size $5000 hearing aid (9:27)
Part3
- Stereo, orthotelephonic response, and phonograph (11:20)
- Three channel sound presentation (14:15)
- Three channel sound on film (18:20)
Part4
- The critical band theory and loudness (19:15)
Part5
- Musical acoustics and the inharmonic structure of a Piano (22:45)
Part6
- Retirement (25:54)
- Final words and credits (27:30). Date of video is 1949+14 years, namely 1963
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