Happy Sound Day!
Feb. 22nd, 2012 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenkushnerAs Sue Zizza* reminds us, today is the 155th birthday of Heinrich Hertz! If you've ever worked in radio or sound engineering, you know he's Our Guy - the frequency of sound cycles is still measured in Hz.
Which turns out to be partly because the Nazis wanted to expunge his full name from the record, since he had a Jewish father . . . oy! This article explains all that, including how to decode today's Google Logo in his honor.
*my producer/director on The Witches of Lublin and the Swordspoint audiobook!
Which turns out to be partly because the Nazis wanted to expunge his full name from the record, since he had a Jewish father . . . oy! This article explains all that, including how to decode today's Google Logo in his honor.
*my producer/director on The Witches of Lublin and the Swordspoint audiobook!