Acoustics Anagram
October 1961 Electronics World

October 1961 Electronics World

October 1961 Electronics World Cover - RF Cafe  Table of Contents 

Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Electronics World, published May 1959 - December 1971. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.

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 which appeared in the October issue of Electronics World magazine.. 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

Acoustics Anagram, October 1961 Electronics World - RF Cafe

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 enĀ­gineer (abbr.).

37. "Twin" of "hi."


Here are other electronics-themed crossword puzzles from vintage electronics magazines (RF Cafe Crosswords here):

- April 1964 Popular Electronics

- November 1962 Electronics World

- March 1962 Popular Electronics

- September 1958 Radio & TV News

- October 1957 Popular Electronics

- November 1957 Popular Electronics

- January 1974 Popular Electronics

- November 1958 Popular Electronics

- January 1965 Electronics World

- November 1960 Electronics World

- January 1960 Electronics World

- December 1957 Popular Electronics

- February 1966 Popular Electronics

- September 1957 Popular Electronics

- December 1960 Popular Electronics

- August 1958 Popular Electronics

- July 1960 Electronics World

- September 1965 Electronics World

- August 1962 Electronics World

- May 1958 Radio News

- November 1958 Radio News

- April 1963 Electronics World

- July 1961 Electronics World

- July 1963 Electronics World

- May 1967 Electronics World

- August 1960 Popular Electronics

- March 1973 Popular Electronics

- June 1966 Popular Electronics

- April 1959 Popular Electronics

- January 1963 Electronics World

- October 1961 Electronics World

- December 1965 Electronics World

- September 1960 Electronics World

- July 1958 Radio & TV News

- April 1967 QST

- April 1960 Electronics World

- October 1963 Electronics World

- May 1963 Electronics World

- October 1960 Electronics World

- July 1971 Radio-Electronics

- May 1959 Electronics World

- May 1963 Electronics World

- April 1966 Popular Electronics

- May 1961 Electronics World

- August 1958 Radio News

- July 1945 Radio-Craft

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Acoustics Anagram Solution, October 1961 Electronics World - RF Cafe

 

 

Posted January 23, 2023
(updated from original post on 5/21/2015)