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The condenser microphone, invented at Western Electric in 1916 by E. C. Wente, [22] ...
1877 : The microphone was first invented by David Edward Hughes, despite Thomas Edison being granted the patent. Hughes discovered that electrical currents varied when sound vibrations were passed through carbon packed into a confined space. His first broadcast was of scratching insects.
Ring-and-spring microphones, such as this Western Electric microphone, were common during the electrical age of sound recording c. 1925–45.. The second wave of sound recording history was ushered in by the introduction of Western Electric's integrated system of electrical microphones, electronic signal amplifiers and electromechanical recorders, which was adopted by major US record labels in ...
A wireless microphone, or cordless microphone, is a microphone without a physical cable connecting it directly to the sound recording or amplifying equipment with which it is associated. Also known as a radio microphone , it has a small, battery-powered radio transmitter in the microphone body, which transmits the audio signal from the ...
The following year, the company introduced "Microport," a wireless microphone system for television production. In 1958 Labor W was renamed Sennheiser electronic. [ 7 ] In 1960, Sennheiser introduced the cardioid successor to its popular MD 21, the MD 421 ; this microphone was also quickly adopted for professional broadcasting applications ...
David Edward Hughes (16 May 1830 – 22 January 1900), was a British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. [3]
Raymond A. Litke (1920-1986) was an American electronic engineer, the inventor of a practical wireless microphone, and the first to patent the wireless microphone.He was born and raised on a farm near Alma, Kansas, but spent most of his adult life in San Jose, California.
First patent on foil electret microphone by G. M. Sessler and J. E. West (pages 1 to 3) West was born on February 10, 1931, in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia as the elder of two children to Samuel Edward and Matilda West. He was born in his maternal grandfather's house because the local hospital would not admit Black people.