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Sound Catcher
The Sound Catcher (''Garsų Gaudyklė'') is a wooden sculpture located in the Curonian Spit National Park in Klaipėda County, Lithuania. The Sound Catcher is a unique wooden work, which resembles a large gramophone in shape. It is a shell in the shape of a hollow truncated pyramid In geometry, a pyramid is a polyhedron formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex. Each base edge and apex form a triangle, called a lateral face. A pyramid is a conic solid with a polygonal base. Many types of pyramids ca ... with a height and width of 3m and a nine-sided base. You can enter the inner part. The work stands out for its acoustics, both for the natural forest sounds of the surroundings, which it amplifies, or you can use the information stand with QR codes with sound recordings for mobile phones. It was created in 2016. Gallery File:Garsų_Gaudyklė,_Gintaro_ilanka,_Neringa,_Litva_03.jpg File:Garsų_Gaudyklė,_Gintaro_ilanka,_Neringa,_Litva_02.jpg Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neringa Municipality
Neringa () or Neringa Municipality () is a municipality of Klaipėda County in westernmost Lithuania, comprising several villages in the Curonian Spit. In terms of population, it is the smallest municipality of the country. Nida is the seat of government and largest town in Neringa Municipality. Etymology The name of the city is relatively new and is not found in old scriptures in this form. The name is derived from a German word ''Neringe, Nerunge, Nehrung'' which itself is a derivative of a curonian word ''nerija'' meaning a long peninsular spit. Until the 2000 Lithuanian municipality reform, it was known as Neringa City, although there was never a true "city" there. It was made a city in the Soviet Union in 1961 by formally combining 4 settlements into one administrative unit. Geography Neringa is located south of Klaipėda, separated from the mainland Lithuania by Curonian Lagoon. It is accessible from the mainland Lithuania by ferry crossing the lagoon or overland throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curonian Spit National Park (Lithuania)
Curonian Spit National Park () is one of the five national parks in Lithuania. It was established in 1991 to protect the unique ecosystems of the Curonian Spit and Curonian Lagoon. Curonian Spit National Park is protected by the state, under the Lithuanian law of Protected Areas. Since 1997, it is a member of EUROPARC Federation. The park has Category II in the classification of the IUCN. ''Protected Planet'' Nagliai nature reserve Nagliai nature reserve protects the Dead dunes. Dead (''Mirusios'') or Gray (''Pilkosios'') dunes are large sand hills built by strong winds, with ravines and erosions. Nagliai nature reserve offers habitat for rare plants, included in the Red Book, four villages and two old cemetery sites that are h ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaipėda County
Klaipėda County () is one of ten counties in Lithuania, bordering Tauragė County to the southeast, Telšiai County to the northeast, Kurzeme in Latvia to the north, and Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia to the south. To the west is the Baltic Sea. It lies in the west of the country and is the only county to have a coastline and not be landlocked. Its capital is Klaipėda. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished, and since that date, Klaipėda County remains as a territorial and statistical unit only. Geography The topography of Klaipėda County is divided into three regions, the highest in the east and lowest in the west: the Western Zemaičiai Plateau in the east, the Western Zemaičiai Plain in the center, and the Pajurys Lowland in the west and on the Baltic coast. Klaipėda County borders Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, to the south via the Nemunas, which drains into the Curonian Lagoon. The Curonian Spit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is split between K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian exclave, semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.89 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities include Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians who are the titular nation and form the majority of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian. For millennia, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united for the first time by Mindaugas, who formed the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gramophone
A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound. The sound vibration waveforms are recorded as corresponding physical deviations of a helical or spiral groove engraved, etched, incised, or impressed into the surface of a rotating cylinder or disc, called a '' record''. To recreate the sound, the surface is similarly rotated while a playback stylus traces the groove and is therefore vibrated by it, faintly reproducing the recorded sound. In early acoustic phonographs, the stylus vibrated a diaphragm that produced sound waves coupled to the open air through a flaring horn, or directly to the listener's ears through stethoscope-type earphones. The phonograph was invented in 1877 by Thomas Edison; its use would rise the following year. Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Laboratory made several improvements in the 1880s and introduced the graphophone, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frustum
In geometry, a ; (: frusta or frustums) is the portion of a polyhedron, solid (normally a pyramid (geometry), pyramid or a cone (geometry), cone) that lies between two parallel planes cutting the solid. In the case of a pyramid, the base faces are polygonal and the side faces are trapezoidal. A ''right frustum'' is a right pyramid or a right cone truncation (geometry), truncated perpendicularly to its axis; otherwise, it is an ''oblique frustum''. In a ''truncated cone'' or ''truncated pyramid'', the truncation plane is necessarily parallel to the cone's base, as in a frustum. If all its edges are forced to become of the same length, then a frustum becomes a ''Prism (geometry), prism'' (possibly oblique or/and with irregular bases). Elements, special cases, and related concepts A frustum's axis is that of the original cone or pyramid. A frustum is circular if it has circular bases; it is right if the axis is perpendicular to both bases, and oblique otherwise. The height of a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nonagon
In geometry, a nonagon () or enneagon () is a nine-sided polygon or 9-gon. The name ''nonagon'' is a prefix Hybrid word, hybrid formation, from Latin (''nonus'', "ninth" + ''gonon''), used equivalently, attested already in the 16th century in French ''nonogone'' and in English from the 17th century. The name ''enneagon'' comes from Greek language, Greek ''enneagonon'' (εννεα, "nine" + γωνον (from γωνία = "corner")), and is arguably more correct, though less common. Regular nonagon A ''regular polygon, regular nonagon'' is represented by Schläfli symbol and has internal angles of 140°. The area of a regular nonagon of side length ''a'' is given by :A = \fraca^2\cot\frac=(9/2)ar = 9r^2\tan(\pi/9) :::= (9/2)R^2\sin(2\pi/9)\simeq6.18182\,a^2, where the radius ''r'' of the inscribed circle of the regular nonagon is :r=(a/2)\cot(\pi/9) and where ''R'' is the radius of its circumscribed circle: :R = \sqrt=r\sec(\pi/9)=(a/2)\csc(\pi/9). Construction Although a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
