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Leon Theremin

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Leon Theremin: Inventor Or Spy?

 

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Leon Theremin playing his own instrument

 

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Leon Theremin plays "Deep Night" (1930)

 

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Leon Theremin - is he the inventor of the television?

 

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THEREMIN - Leon Theremin presents the "Thereminvox" (1953)

Leon Theremin was a Russian and Soviet inventor, most famous for his invention of the theremin, one of the first electronic musical instruments and the first to be mass-produced. He also worked on early television research. His listening device, "The Thing", hung for seven years in plain view in the United States Ambassador's Moscow office and enabled Soviet agents to eavesdrop on secret conversations.
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