A friend of mine is producing a series of HOWTO videos for an open source project, and discovered that he needed a better ...

Conventional wisdom has it that the solid state era in electronics began in 1948 with the invention of the transistor, or if you wish to split hairs, with the 1930s invention by the Russian [Oleg ...

On the 185th birth anniversary of Welsh-American scientist and musician David Edward Hughes, inventor of the first carbon microphone, we take a look at the man's contribution of the world of sound ...

This is a carbon microphone used by Eugene Augstin Lauste during his experimentation with sound-on-film technology ca. 1904-1913. Microphone consists of a black wood platform raised on two wood blocks ...

Microphones are, perhaps, one of the most taken-for-granted electrical devices ever developed for wide-spread use. They have been used to guide military troops in times of war, provide millions of ...

As a long-time collector of early microphones, I’ve always been intrigued by this image. It shows the microphone storage room at NBC in New York in 1929. Operating engineer George McElrath is checking ...