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Started by Marcus Thompson (@marcus_t) ·

the theremin guy also built one of the best spy bugs ever

Started with Clara Rockmore videos, ended up in Cold War espionage. Theremin went back to the USSR, got sent to a prison lab, and designed a passive listening device that hung in the US ambassador's study in Moscow for seven years before anyone found it.

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How I got here

Started with
“clara rockmore theremin”
Ended at
Electro-Theremin

The Trail

  1. “clara rockmore theremin” (youtube.com)
  2. Theremin (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Clara Rockmore (en.wikipedia.org)

    plays it like a violin and never touches it

  4. Leon Theremin (en.wikipedia.org)
  5. The Thing (listening device) (en.wikipedia.org)

    no battery, no wires. hidden in a carved Great Seal handed to the US ambassador in 1945

  6. Radio-frequency identification (en.wikipedia.org)
  7. Electro-Theremin (en.wikipedia.org)

    the 'theremin' on Good Vibrations is actually this. a slider, not hands in the air

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