{"id":609,"date":"2010-09-09T16:28:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/?p=609"},"modified":"2010-09-20T11:22:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T10:22:56","slug":"lovelace-and-babbage-vs-the-organist-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/lovelace-and-babbage-vs-the-organist-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovelace and Babbage vs The Organist, Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have dragged myself up from the floor, and with quivering pen have managed to scratch out the following almost-illegible CRY FOR HELP.  The Organist! Part 7! AKA, Act II part 1, because I totally have this whole thing planned out. Really!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_pg1\" width=\"550\" height=\"871\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg1-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_pg2\" width=\"550\" height=\"779\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg2.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg2-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg31.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_pg3\" width=\"550\" height=\"756\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg31.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg31-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg4.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_pg4\" width=\"550\" height=\"816\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg4.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg4-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_pg5\" width=\"550\" height=\"857\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg5.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg5-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg5andahalf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_pg5andahalf\" width=\"550\" height=\"992\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg5andahalf.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg5andahalf-166x300.jpg 166w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg62.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_pg6\" width=\"550\" height=\"816\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg62.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg62-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg7.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_pg7\" width=\"550\" height=\"756\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg7.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg7-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg8.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_pg8\" width=\"550\" height=\"756\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg8.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg8-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_pg9\" width=\"550\" height=\"756\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg9.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_pg9-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/organist7_last.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"organist7_last\" width=\"550\" height=\"1364\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-610\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A heaping&#8217; spoonful of NOTES:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concertina.com\/wheatstone\/\">All the concertina primary documents I KNOW you are craving!<\/a>  Patents! Price lists! <strike>Evil plans!<\/strike>  I&#8217;m still finding Wheatstone a bit slippery as a character.. I&#8217;m going for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PEHcHcneFFc&#038;feature=related\">Bunsen Honeydew<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kTKn1aSOyOs\">Werner Von Braun<\/a> thing at the moment.  Speak to me, Wheatstone!  What&#8217;s it all about?  <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; I have to record in these notes, the uncomfortable fact that Charles Babbage did die under torture, of a sort&#8211; his mortal enemies the street musicians played continually under the window of his death-bed room, while his poor son unavailingly begged them to stop.  Evil of this variety does not thrive in the Pocket Universe I&#8217;m happy to say.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; After that, I&#8217;m sure we would all be cheered up by a Wurlitzer rising up out of the ground:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dgDUXkCPTTE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dgDUXkCPTTE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Things I DO NOT MAKE UP: <a href=\"http:\/\/earlyradiohistory.us\/1906telh.htm\">The TELHARMONIUM.<\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Teleharmonium1897.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Teleharmonium1897\" width=\"419\" height=\"288\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Teleharmonium1897.jpg 419w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Teleharmonium1897-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Organist&#8221; was going to be a wee short cute episode, until the Helpful Bryce (who himself <i>openly admits<\/i> to studing the organ!) sent me a missive alerting me to the existence of a turn-of-the-20th century, 200-ton electric organ that broadcast over the telephone wires.  What is a girl to do with this information?  I ASK YOU? Hence, this monstrous epic that you see unfolding before you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamericanpast.com\/Scientific%20American%201900%20to%201909\/6\/lg\/1907_3_9sciam.htm\">Scientific American on the Telharmonium.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PPlbXl81Rs0\">A Telharmonium documentary,<\/a> if you have 20 minutes or so. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e6ym0Gqormk&#038;feature=related\">Part 2.<\/a> Featuring Mark Twain: &#8221; The trouble about these beautiful, novel things is that they interfere so with one&#8217;s arrangements. Every time I see or hear a new wonder like this I have to postpone my death right off. I couldn&#8217;t possibly leave the world until I have heard this again and again.&#8221; Sadly there is no recording of the no doubt celestial harmonies of the Telharmonium, I am informed it would resemble a Hammond Organ:<\/p>\n<p>The Telharmonium proper is too electronic for this comic, though it does feature pleasantly steampunky cogs (and overalls! and child labour!): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/120years.net\/machines\/telharmonium\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/rotor2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rotor2\" width=\"195\" height=\"312\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/rotor2.jpg 195w, https:\/\/sydneypadua.com\/2dgoggles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/rotor2-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What with this high technology of telephone wires and paper cones, and I was highly concerned that this is edging out of what may properly be considered the technological scope of this comic until I found:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/stream\/historytheorypra00presrich#page\/334\/mode\/2up\/search\/Music\">Music By Telegraph!<\/a>  Yankee Doodle, carried by lightning!  The Tele-orchestri-phono-blater-ion thus can theoretically be brought back to the 1860s, give or take.  If you&#8217;re interested in that sort of thing, this notion led to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privateline.com\/mt_telephonehistory\/iii_the_inventors_gray_and_bell\/\">Harmonic Telegraph<\/a>, which led to the Telephone. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; On the properly period front, here&#8217;s a lovely Orchestrion for you.  Put it on a loop and crank the volume!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4ULysgphJtE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4ULysgphJtE?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Oh what the heck, here&#8217;s another.  You know you want more!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nEMkTQksfDg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nEMkTQksfDg?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll get a new one every episode now.  Collect them all!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thecorrespondentsmusic\">The Correspondents<\/a> have absolutely nothing to do with this comic.  This Shadowy Kingpin does bear a striking resemblance to The Organist, but I&#8217;m sure he is PERFECTLY INNOCENT:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ISuEy2wuCRA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ISuEy2wuCRA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Let us hope the Organist&#8217;s plan does not succeed and fill London with such MUSIC!  Because that would be TERRIBLE!!<\/p>\n<p>As usual, no eta&#8217;s for the next episode, but now I have been Flung Out Into The Streets* I have little more time for these Frivolities, in between the health-giving country-pub walks I intend to do as soon as it stops raining.  Comments are always welcomed, I know I&#8217;m ponderously slow at responding but I really do love getting them!<\/p>\n<p>*don&#8217;t worry I am routinely Flung Out at the end of movie, and tend to find myself Flung Back In Again in fairly short order, which is why my hair is always such a mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have dragged myself up from the floor, and with quivering pen have managed to scratch out the following almost-illegible CRY FOR HELP. The Organist! Part 7! AKA, Act II part 1, because I totally have this whole thing planned out. Really! 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