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English: Crude carbon microphone invented by David Edward Hughes in 1878. It consists of a carbon rod suspended by its pointed ends vertically between two metal electrodes. Sound vibrations transmitted from the wooden back to the carbon-steel contact causes varying pressure on the carbon granules, causing variation in the carbon's resistance. Edwards found that the device was very sensitive, he was able hear the sound of a fly walking on it, and named it "microphone". Edwards did not invent the microphone but experimented with a wide range of "microphonic" electrical contacts. |
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| Source | Retrieved October 27, 2015 from Thomas Elway, "The Microphone - Radio's electric ear" in Radio News magazine, Teck Publishing Co., Dunellen, New Jersey, Vol. 8, No. 7, January 1932, p. 557 on http://www.americanradiohistory.com website |
| Author | Thomas Elway |
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This 1932 issue of Radio News magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1960. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1959, 1960 and 1961 show no renewal entries for Radio News. Therefore the magazine's copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain. |
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