October 1961 Electronics World
Table of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
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Electronics World, published May 1959
- December 1971. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
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Isn't an anagram a word game where letters of one word are rearranged
to spell another word or series of words? For instance, an
anagram for 'microwave' is 'warm voice,' one for ''resistance"
is "ancestries," and for "vector" is "covert." If so, then this
puzzle is misnamed; it is really a crossword puzzle. Maybe back
in 1961 the word anagram included this type of puzzle. Regardless
of the naming error, I did learn a new word: "inertance,"
which means "the effect of inertia in an acoustic system, an
impeding of the transmission of sound through the system."
Acoustics Anagram
By John Comstock

Across
1. Audio.
4. Sound energy dissipated without accomplishing any
work.
6. Part of familiar term for full-range reproduction.
8. A regularly occurring pulsation of amplitude resulting
from the combining of two sounds or tones.
9. Opposite of treble sound frequencies.
12. Device used in a sound system to attenuate a signal or
couple two impedances.
13. Term often applied to a coaxially constructed speaker.
14. Electro-acoustic unit of power ratio based on the Napierian
base of logarithms.
15. Coil found in speakers (abbr.).
16. Class of audio amplification.
18. Satisfactory in quality.
19. Transducer that picks up sound and converts it into electrical
currents (fam.).
20. River in Italy.
22. Unit of loudness.
23. Material removed from surface of phonograph recording
disc by the cutting stylus.
22. Undesirable noise in an audio system.
24. Opposite of a "dead" or highly damped room.
27. High frequencies.
29. Unit of stylus pressure.
30. Equipment used to address large gatherings (abbr.).
31. Essential component in a hi-fi system (abbr.).
33. Recording companies' trade association (abbr.).
38. Frequencies above 20,000 cps.
Down
1. Unit of sound absorption.
2. Electro-acoustic unit of relative power, voltage,
or current (abbr.).
3. The amount that an audio amplifier can increase
the amplitude of a signal.
5. Sound in its "third dimension."
7. In acoustics, inertance is the equivalent of _____________
10. Transducer used in every audio system.
11. One circuit of audio amplification.
17. The _____________ of audio frequencies extends from 15-20,000
cps,
19. The part of a speaker that receives power from the electrical
circuit and converts it into mechanical energy.
21. Pertaining to the ear or sense of hearing.
26. The "receiving" circuit of an audio amplifier.
27. Ordinarily, sound is composed of a number of ___________
28. Organ used for the perception of sound.
29. That portion of a magnetic circuit in which there is
no ferromagnetic material.
32. Loud, undesirable sound.
34. Medium through which sound waves travel.
35. Sound ratio.
36. Meter watched by recording engineer (abbr.).
37. "Twin" of "hi."
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Posted May 21, 2015