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  2. BBC-Marconi Type A microphone - Wikipedia

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    In the early 1930s, the BBC became aware of RCA's model 44 ribbon microphone that was used in Hollywood. [1] [6] Each pair of microphone and amplifier would have cost the BBC £130 (approximately £6,500 in 2009. because of inflation) [6] [7]). As this was not within the BBC's budget, they designed their own microphone, the Type A, alongside ...

  3. Microphone - Wikipedia

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    Shure Brothers microphone, model 55S, multi-impedance "Small Unidyne" dynamic from 1951. A microphone, colloquially called a mic (/ m aɪ k /), [1] or mike, [a] is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.

  4. Carbon microphone - Wikipedia

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    Carbon microphone from Western Electric telephone handset, around 1976. A disassembled Ericsson carbon microphone with carbon particles visible. The carbon microphone, also known as carbon button microphone, button microphone, or carbon transmitter, is a type of microphone, a transducer that converts sound to an electrical audio signal.

  5. Valve microphone - Wikipedia

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    The U47 was the first condenser microphone switchable between cardioid and omni-directional pick-up patterns. It incorporated the highly successful 12- micron -thick M7 capsule and VF-14 tube amplifier, which was a metal-clad pre-World War II pentode changed to work as a triode .

  6. Ribbon microphone - Wikipedia

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    A ribbon microphone, also known as a ribbon velocity microphone, is a type of microphone that uses a thin aluminum, duraluminum or nanofilm of electrically conductive ribbon placed between the poles of a magnet to produce a voltage by electromagnetic induction. Ribbon microphones are typically bidirectional, meaning that they pick up sounds ...

  7. Electro-Voice RE20 - Wikipedia

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    The microphone came with a switch to tailor the mid-bass response, attenuating frequencies below 400 Hz with a mild high-pass filter. Like all premium microphones made by EV, it used EV's 1930s humbucker method of reducing electromagnetic interference by wiring a humbucking coil out of polarity with the microphone element coil.

  8. James West (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. History of communication - Wikipedia

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    The use of technology in communication may be considered since the first use of symbols about 30,000 years BCE. Among the symbols used, there are cave paintings, petroglyphs, pictograms and ideograms. Writing was a major innovation, as well as printing technology and, more recently, telecommunications and the Internet.