Since 1934
Two ways to send a signal. One forgotten drawer.
Two men. One year. Two ways to send a signal.
Paris, between the wars.
Georges Lakhovsky was born in 1869 in the Russian Empire and spent his working life in Paris as an engineer. He lived through the years when electricity went from a curiosity to the center of modern life, and like many engineers of that era, he became fascinated by one idea: frequency.
The 1920s and 1930s were full of researchers experimenting with oscillators, coils, and waves. Most of them shared one assumption. Find the right frequency, the one exact number, and deliver it as precisely as possible.
Lakhovsky asked a different question.
Not one note. All of them.
What if choosing one exact number was not the only way? What if you built an instrument that sent out many wavelengths at the same time, so that the full range was always present?
He designed it with geometry. Seventeen split rings of different diameters, one inside the other, each ring answering to its own wavelength. Not one antenna. A choir of them.
On November 13, 1931 he filed the design with the United States Patent Office. On June 12, 1934 he was granted patent number 1,962,565, titled "Apparatus with circuits oscillating under multiple wave lengths."
His own words, from the patent:
"an apparatus capable of sending out simultaneously different wave lengths so that among these waves or their harmonics there is found almost always one or several capable of producing the best effect sought"
In plain words: send many waves at once, and the right one is always in there.
The war, and the drawer.
Lakhovsky left Europe in 1940, as the war closed in, and arrived in New York on December 4 of that year. He died there in 1942.
His work did not die with him, but it did something almost worse. It went quiet. The patents stayed in the archives. The ring geometry stayed on paper. For ninety years, one of the more original engineering ideas of its era sat in a drawer.
What we did with it.
Amatro builds frequency devices on the foundations of that era. Our TrueWave line holds one exact, clean note, the way the precision school intended. And our Spectrum design builds Lakhovsky's seventeen-ring geometry with modern components and gold-plated elements, exactly as the patent drew it.
Two philosophies, ninety years old, finally built properly.
You can see the current lineup on our Devices page.
Historical note. References to Georges Lakhovsky and to United States Patent 1,962,565 are historical. They describe the origin of the ring geometry used in our products. They are not a statement about what any product does, and they are not a claim of any effect.
