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A brilliant inventor and fighter for equal opportunity

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Kevin Murnane

In the early 1960s James West and his colleague Gerhard Sessler invented the electret microphone while they were working together at Bell Labs. The condenser mics that were being used at the time cost hundreds of dollars; an electret mic that … Continue reading →

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