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  2. James West (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    West and Sessler optimized the mechanical and surface parameters of the system. [10] Nearly 90 percent of the microphones produced annually are based on the principles of the foil-electret and are used in everyday items such as telephones, camcorders, hearing aids, baby monitors, and audio recording devices among others. [11]

  3. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison in 1861. Thomas Edison was born in 1847 in Milan, Ohio, but grew up in Port Huron, Michigan, after the family moved there in 1854. [8] He was the seventh and last child of Samuel Ogden Edison Jr. (1804–1896, born in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia) and Nancy Matthews Elliott (1810–1871, born in Chenango County, New York).

  4. Gerhard M. Sessler - Wikipedia

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    Gerhard M. Sessler (born 15 February 1931 in Rosenfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) [1] is a German inventor and scientist. He is Professor emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.

  5. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    German scientist Johann Philipp Reis invented the Microphone: 1862: Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell published the four equations bearing his name 1866: The Transatlantic telegraph cable: 1873: Belgian engineer Zenobe Gramme who developed the DC generator accidentally discovered that a DC generator also works as a DC motor during an ...

  6. Raymond A. Litke - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    In 1991, Kodak brought to market the Kodak DCS (Kodak Digital Camera System), the beginning of a long line of professional Kodak DCS SLR cameras that were based in part on film bodies, often Nikons. The Kodak DCS was the first commercially available Digital SLR (DSLR) It used a 1.3 megapixel sensor, had a bulky external digital storage system ...

  8. Kazimierz Prószyński - Wikipedia

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    Compressed air was pumped into the camera system, before filming, with a simple special pump similar to the ones still used to pump bicycle tires. Hundreds of light and relatively compact Aeroscope cameras were used by British Army combat cameramen on the battlefields of World War I and later by newsreel cameramen until the late 1920s, when ...

  9. Vincent Chevalier - Wikipedia

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    He played a key role in the history of the camera. [1] The very first photograph was taken in 1825 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor who used a sliding wooden camera box made by Chevalier. [3] [2] He died in 1841 in Paris, France. [1] His son became a manufacturer of cameras and lenses. [3]