The Microphone Part 2
The first Microphone was the Carbon Microphone. The word "microphone" comes from the Greek word "micro", which means "small", and another greek word "phone" that means "voice". It first appeared in a dictionary in 1683 as "an instrument
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Berliner made one carbon mic model with a high-current carbon microphone that was air cooled by a fan mounted under the microphone. The motor sound was very audible over voice in use! Toward the end of 1906 Fessenden had built a
The Microphone part 5
The condenser microphone was invented by Edward Wente in 1916 as a much-needed low-noise substitute for the carbon microphone. It was basicly distortionless and became the standard microphone for acoustical measurements.
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This hydraulic microphone/mitter apparatus successfully broadcast voice messages from Rome to Tripoli, a distance of nearly 1000 Km in 1908. I'd love to tell you more about this but all the articles are in Italian The carbon mic
The Microphone Part 3
Working alone in his rooming house he fashioned a new type of microphone which he called a "loose-contact" mitter. It was a type of microphone, which increased the volume of the mitted voice. It was a type of carbon microphone
The Microphone part 4
The dynamic microphone has a lower noise or distortion level than that of the carbon microphone and required no power to operate. But those were not usable mics. The first practical commercial dynamic microphone was the Western Electric
Telephone Handset Microphone
This is designed to work with the old-style handsets with the carbon mics inside (see picture). It probably won't work with most newer handsets. I'm sure twelve year olds in 1994 used to call this a "purple polk-a-dot box.
Mars Polar Lander
climate, and water and carbon dioxide levels, in order to understand the near the edge of the carbon dioxide ice cap in Mars’ late southern spring. A miniature microphone was also be on board to record sounds on Mars.
Microphones for Musicians – Ribbon and Carbon
Carbon microphones were once commonly used in telephone handsets, but are now not very widely used. This type of microphone uses carbon dust pressed between two metal plates. An electrical signal is passed between the two plates,
AMBIT gets another carbon nanotube patent bringing total to five
Five have issued so far, covering things like carbon nanotube antennas and arrays, using a nanotube for a switch or memory element, a microphone, or an actuator, also using nanotubes to improve the efficiency of solar cells. Good stuff.

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HISTORY OF THE MICROPHONE - ERIK'S CLASSIC MICROPHONES - VINTAGE
J. Berliner made a high-current carbon microphone that was air cooled by a This microphone was water-cooled and consisted of 16 seperate carbon units.
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carbon microphone Carbon microphone from Western Electric telephone. The carbon microphone is also known as a carbon button microphone (or sometimes.
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carbon microphone Microphone whose operation depends on pressure variation in carbon granules causing a change in resistance.
Simple Microphone Amplifier
Many aircraft communications ceivers are designed to use a carbon microphone as the speech input device*. Such microphones are no longer easy to obtain
Bizarre microphone
Simple microphone. Carbon microphone. This is a very simple carbon mic, but if it is carefully constructed, it will pick up louder sounds fairly well.
Telegraphy and Telephony
Receiving telegraph station and key Morse type; Model of a couple of complete Morse stations; Hughes’ microphone; Carbon microphone; Microphone for radio
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explore : carbon mic · rss rss · Telephone Handset Microphone. Some time ago my girlfriend asked me if I would make her one of those telephone microphones
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Gear Factor
Capturing the unique audio qualities of the classic, once-ubiquitous carbon microphone, such a device could fulfill all your musicmaking, online gaming and carbon+microphone: carbon+microphone