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  2. Microphone - Wikipedia

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    A microphone, colloquially called a mic (/ m aɪ k /), [1] or mike, [a] is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. Microphones are used in many applications such as telephones , hearing aids , public address systems for concert halls and public events, motion picture production, live and recorded audio engineering , sound ...

  3. David Edward Hughes - Wikipedia

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    David Edward Hughes (16 May 1830 – 22 January 1900), was a British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. [3]

  4. Wireless microphone - Wikipedia

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    A wireless microphone, or cordless microphone, is a microphone without a physical cable connecting it directly to the sound recording or amplifying equipment with which it is associated. Also known as a radio microphone , it has a small, battery-powered radio transmitter in the microphone body, which transmits the audio signal from the ...

  5. James West (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    First patent on foil electret microphone by G. M. Sessler and J. E. West (pages 1 to 3) West was born on February 10, 1931, in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia as the elder of two children to Samuel Edward and Matilda West. He was born in his maternal grandfather's house because the local hospital would not admit Black people.

  6. RCA Type 77-DX microphone - Wikipedia

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    The directionality of the 77-DX is variable. A rotating backshutter on the acoustic labyrinth, controlled by a screwdriver-operated slot at the rear of the microphone, allows the user to vary the microphone's pattern from omnidirectional in the fully closed position, to cardioid, to figure-8 (bidirectional) in the fully open position.

  7. 50 Random And Interesting Facts You Might Not Know ... - AOL

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    BSc meteorologist Janice Davila tells Bored Panda that one of the most unknown facts from her field of expertise is that weather radars are slightly tilted upward in a half-degree (1/2°) angle.

  8. Trump appears to emulate ‘sex act’ on microphone after he ...

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    This is Trump on stage at a rally, pretending to perform a sex-act on a microphone. Trump appeared to make the gesture on stage at a rally in Milwaukee on November 1 (Fox News/YouTube) “This is ...

  9. Røde Microphones - Wikipedia

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    It was followed closely by the NT4 stereo microphone and the NT5 'pencil' condenser microphone. The company later added the NT55, NT6, M3, M5, and TF-5 – a collaboration with Grammy-award-winning audio engineer Tony Faulkner – microphones to its range. Røde released its first ribbon microphone, the NTR, in 2015.