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Convention Paper

Audio Technology in Berlin to 1943: Microphones

Authors: Weiss, Ernst

AES Convention 94 · Paper 3482 · March 1993

Abstract

The history of Berlin of the past 100 years shows a great many names, inventions, and developments in the fields of science, fine art, and technology. This also refers to audio with regard to telephone, film, disk records, radio, and television. For the electroacoustic transmission, the microphone is the first link of a long chain. This presentation addresses the contributions made in Berlin from 1880 through 1943, up to the development of this transducer. Discussed will be the simple carbon granule microphone, the Reisz microphone, the rf-condenser microphone, the kathodophone, the ribbon microphone, and the condenser microphones with dc polarization.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 94
AES Convention
94
Paper number
3482
Publication date
March 6, 1993
Session subject
Audio History and Technology
Affiliation
Georg Neumann GmbH, Berlin, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper