Kerr Mackie Primary School - ITS FRIDAY!!!! and today we celebrate James E. West who developed the “electroacoustic transducer electret microphone” in the 1960s. Their concept was so good that 90% of
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Role Models in Science & Engineering Achievement: James Edward West -- Acoustical scientist, Co-inventor of the foil electret microphone (on which 90 percent of today's microphones are based) | ScienceBlogs
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