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who invented microphone?
In 1827, Sir Charles Wheatstone was the first person to coin the phrase "microphone."

In 1876, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter.

In 1878, the carbon microphone was invented by David Edward Hughes, and later developed during the 1920s. Hughes's microphone was the early model for the various carbon microphones now in use.

With the invention of the radio, new broadcasting microphones were created. The ribbon microphone was invented in 1942 for radio broadcasting.

James West and Gerhard Sessler invented the electric microphone in 1962.


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