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Leon Theremin
Lev Sergeyevich Termen, better known as Leon Theremin, was a Russian inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research. His secret listening device, "The Thing", hung for seven years in plain view in the United States ambassador's Moscow office and enabled Soviet ag…
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science · Russian inventor (1896–1993) · inventor · physicist · musician · cellist · also Leon Theremin, Lev Sergeyevich Termen, Léon Thérémin, Leon Termen, Lev Theremin, Lev Sergeevich Termen
Born 15 August 1896 · Died 3 November 1993 · Q333265
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2026· 2 entries
“I think it could be sold and produced at the price of a three-valve radio set.”
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2022· 1 entry
French writer Emmanuel Villin published the novel La Fugue Thérémine (éditions Asphalte), which looks back on the life of Leon Theremin
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2020· 2 entries
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: Leon Theremin: Inventor Or Spy?
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Hackaday: leon theremin
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2014· 1 entry
Canadian writer Sean Michaels published the novel Us Conductors, which was inspired by the relationship between Leon Theremin and Clara Rockmore
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2012· 1 entry
BBC: Leon Theremin: The man and the music machine
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2008· 2 entries
New Atlas: Good Vibrations: the musical and military instruments of Leon Theremin
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Gizmodo: Leon Theremin: Rocker, Lover, KGB Agent
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2000· 1 entry
University of Illinois Press published Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage by Albert Glinsky, with a foreword by Robert Moog
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1993· 3 entries
Died 1993-11-03.
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“I wanted to invent some kind of an instrument that would not operate mechanically, as does the piano, or the cello and the violin, whose bow movements can be compared to those of a saw. I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra.”
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“I was interested in making a different kind of instrument. And I wanted, of course, to make an apparatus that would be controlled in space, exploiting electrical fields, and that would use little energy. Therefore I used electronic technology to create a musical instrument that would provide greater resources.”
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1991· 1 entry
Each time accompanied by his daughter Natalia Theremin ( professional thereminist)
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1947· 5 entries
Awarded Stalin Prize (1947).
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Awarded State Stalin Prize, 1st degree (1947).
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Career landmark: rehabilitation.
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Theremin was awarded the Stalin prize for inventing this advance in Soviet espionage technology
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Theremin to remain working with the KGB until 1966
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1945· 1 entry
Soviet school children presented the concealed bug to the U
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1931· 2 entries
Worked with composer Henry Cowell to build an instrument called the rhythmicon
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Career landmark: chief executive officer (1931–1938).
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1930· 1 entry
Ten thereminists performed on stage at Carnegie Hall
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1928· 1 entry
And then granted commercial production rights to RCA
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1926· 1 entry
Studied at Peter the Great Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical University (1920–1926).
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1925· 2 entries
Improving to 32 scan lines and then 64 using interlacing in 1926, and he demonstrated moving, if blurry, images on 7 June 1927
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Theremin went to Germany to sell both the radio watchman and Termenvox patents to the German firm Goldberg and Sons
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1919· 1 entry
Career landmark: head of department (1919).
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1917· 1 entry
Theremin wrote that Ioffe talked of electrons, the photoelectric effect and magnetic fields as parts of an objective reality that surrounds us every day, unlike others that talked more of somewhat abstract formulae and s
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1916· 3 entries
Theremin finished the Military Engineering School in six months, progressed through the Graduate Electronic School for Officers, and attained the military radio-engineer diploma in the same year
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Studied at Saint Petersburg Conservatory (1916).
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Studied at Nikolay engineering school (1910–1916).
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1896· 1 entry
Born 1896-08-15.
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