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2. Candlestick telephone - Wikipedia

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   A Western Electric desk stand telephone of the 1920s and 30s. The candlestick telephone (or pole telephone) is a style of telephone that was common from the late 1890s to the 1940s. A candlestick telephone is also often referred to as a desk stand, an upright, or a stick phone. Candlestick telephones featured a mouthpiece (transmitter) mounted ...

3. Microphone - Wikipedia

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   The condenser microphone, ... old churches, theaters, on-site TV interviews, etc. [45] An example of a nondirectional microphone is the round black eight ball.

4. Microphone stand - Wikipedia

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   A rare type of microphone stand is the bottomless microphone stand—essentially a microphone stand with no base, so a singer must hold it throughout a live performance. It is useful as a mobile prop. Freddie Mercury (the lead singer of Queen), discovered the device by accident: he grabbed a standard microphone stand with such force that it ...

5. Turner Microphone Company - Wikipedia

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   The Turner Microphone company was founded by David Turner and Everett Foster in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1931. The company soon began making microphones and public address systems. Turner opened a larger factory in 1936 and produced a large quantity of microphones and grew to 1200 employees by the 1970s.

6. BBC-Marconi Type A microphone - Wikipedia

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   There were initial concerns that the new design infringed the patent of the RCA microphone, but these were overcome. [6] The Type A was produced at a cost of £9 each (approximately £475 in 2009). [6] [7] The original Type A microphone was designed by engineer F. W. Alexander [8] under the guidance of H. L. Kirke's Research Department at the ...

7. Astatic Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Astatic model D-104 microphone. In 1930, two amateur radio operators, Creed M. Chorpening, W8WR (later W8MJM) and F.H. Woodworth, W8AHW began experimenting with different types of microphones for their "ham" stations. Their mutual friend, Charles Semple, worked for Brush Development Company where he had been experimenting with Rochelle salt ...