Unidyne LLC history

Some say he has initially invented the microphone as early as 1874.

Who invented the microphone? Emile Berliner invented the first microphone in 1876 with Thomas Edison.

It’s worth noting here that Ernst Werner von Siemens, the German electrical engineer and inventor, perhaps created the first-ever moving-coil microphone in 1877.

Alexander Graham Bell bought the patent to Berliner’s mic in 1878.

In 1886, Thomas Edison, now working to improve the Bell Telephone microphone (Emile Berliner’s carbon microphone mentioned above), found a way to do so.

In 1892, the Supreme Court ruled that it was Edison who had invented the microphone.

In 1904, Sir John Ambrose Fleming, an English electrical engineer and physicist, invented the first vacuum tube.

In 1916, Edward Christopher Wente, an American physicist invented the first-ever condenser microphone while working at Western Electric.

In 1917, Paul Langevin, the French physicist, was the first person to use piezoelectric crystals to detect sound.

He did so while also developing piezoelectric loudspeakers and phonograph pickups. It is said that in 1919, Alexander Nicolson (not the Scottish lawyer) produced the first piezoelectric microphone for capturing sound waves.

The company that would eventually become one of the top dogs of the microphone began way back in 1925 as the “Shure Radio Company” located in Chicago, Illinois, founded by Sydney N. Shure.

The microphone quickly became the standard for BBC studios in London and remained so until 1928.

By 1931, the pair had developed the first official Shure branded creation dubbed the Model 33N Two-Button Carbon Microphone.

Ever since its 1939 release, it carried a tantamount recognition as its legendary users.

In 1941, Harry F. Olson of RCA had invented and been awarded a US patent for an “Electro-acoustical Apparatus (Line Microphone “Shotgun Microphone”).”

The JFET was first patented by Heinrich Welker, a German theoretical and applied physicist, in 1945.

In 1948, Georg Neumann brought another first to the microphone market.

In 1956, Labor W (now Sennheiser Electronics GmbH) released the Model MD 82.

However, the first recorded patent for a wireless microphone only happened in 1957.

In 1961, Bell Laboratory engineers Gerhard Sessler and Doctor James E. West developed the Electroacoustic Transducer Electret Microphone.

The first-ever transistorized microphone to hit the market was the Schoeps CMT 20, which was released in 1964.

In 1968, Sony released its ECM (electret condenser microphone) line of microphones, which starred the ECM-22P.

The first commercial digital recordings were released in 1971.

The first microphone based on silicon micro-machining (MEMS microphone) was introduced in 1983 by D. Hohm and Gerhard M. Sessler.

It was released in 2003 and is, to this day, the flagship microphone of the Neumann Solution-D series of microphones.