Monthly Archives: January 2012

History of the Microphone

The actual term “microphone” was thought up way back in 1827 by Charles Wheatstone, best known for his electric telegraph.  The first microphone as we think of it was invented in 1876 by Emile Berliner as part of a telephone. Berliner also invented the phonographs and the original Apple iPod (that last part doesn’t seem [...]

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