Sentences with phrase «phonograph needles»

Insert phonograph needle scratch sound effect here.

The tip is mechanically deflected by electronic forces very close to the sample, moving like a phonograph needle in a groove.

Physicist Philip Kim of Columbia University began trying to flake off graphene layers in 2002 by dragging a tiny graphite rod with an atomic force microscope, which is like an exquisitely sensitive phonograph needle.

Not exact matches

Coleman charts the history of recorded music from Edison's phonograph — played by hand - cranking a needle through grooves on a cylinder — to the digital CDs and iPods of today.

The instrument uses a carefully engineered cantilever with a tip just nanometers (millionths of a millimeter) across to scan a surface in the way the needle of a phonograph does.

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