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A 3 page paper. Research often emerges from a simple question. In this case a person asked if the quality of the telephone would improve. It was 1928 and it was Georg von Bekesy to whom the question was posed. He was already working on adapting telephone equipment to the needs of human hearing. He began studying the cochlea, first using a mechanical model, then using the ears of animal cadavers, and finally, using the ears of human cadavers. The result was his place theory of hearing. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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it was Georg von Bekesy to whom the question was posed. He was already working on adapting telephone equipment to the needs of human hearing. He began studying the cochlea,
first using a mechanical model and then using the real ears of animal cadavers and finally, using the ears of human cadavers. The result was his place theory of hearing.
Place Theory of Hearing In 1928, Georg von Bekesy was studying the mechanical and electrical adaptation of telephone equipment to the demands of the human hearing mechanism in Budapest.
During a conversation, an acquaintance asked him if there would be major improvements in the quality of telephone equipment. von Bekesy considered a different question, which was: how much
better was the human ear than telephone equipment (Nave, n.d.). This led Bekesy to begin experiments with the cochlea. First, he built mechanical models of the human cochlea. That was
a metal tube filled with water. The tube had a narrow slot along the length covered with a membrane, which was to represent the basilar membrane of the human ear
(Nave, n.d.). He found that by adjusting the membrane when the fluid was put in motion, it caused a bulge which acted like an undulating wave along the slot in
the tube. He was able to confine the bulge to the biggest part of the bulge to a particular region on the membrane (Nave, n.d.). While the undulation traveled across
the entire length of the membrane, the amplitude, which was the bigness of the bulge, varied with position (Nave, n.d.). The bulge was slight everyplace except in one area where
it was large. von Bekesy saw that the same wave movement was present in the cochlea itself. To further the results, he first used animal ears (the animals had already
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