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4 unusual facts about Alan Blumlein


Hayes and Harlington railway station

The film is almost the first demonstration of stereophonic sound to accompany moving pictures, an invention of Alan Blumlein.

Nitrogen laser

An alternative construction uses two capacitors connected as a Blumlein generator.

Valve audio amplifier

the Ultra-Linear output stage (a tapped push-pull output transformer providing power intermediate between triodes and pentodes, at lower distortion than either) was originated by Alan Blumlein in 1937 in the UK, but popularised following publication of a paper by David Hafler and Keroes in the USA in 1951, and became the dominant topology during the post war recovery of consumer products

Valve audio amplifier technical specification

In 1937, Alan Blumlein originated a configuration between a "triode strapped" tetrode and normal tetrode, that connects the extra grid of a tetrode to a tap from the OPT part way between the anode voltage and the supply voltage.



see also

Blumlein

Blumlein Pair, a stereo recording technique invented by Alan Blumlein