Making her picture book debut in this series kickoff, Ramirez uses exclamatory prose to highlight the life and legacy of Jim West (b. 1931), who patented the foil-electret microphone. From a curious ...

James Edward West was born in 1931 in Prince Edward County, Virginia. He grew up in a segregated society and faced numerous challenges and barriers due to racial discrimination. Despite this, West was ...

Before the invention of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) microphones, almost all microphones in cell phones and other electronics were a type of condenser microphone called the electret microphone ...

Professional condenser microphones require a 48-V supply to charge the internal capacitive transducer and power the internal buffer for the high-impedance transducer output. You can use a simple boost ...

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In 1962, James West, an African-American inventor and professor, pioneered the electret transducer technology used in 90 percent of contemporary microphones. He was born on February 10, 1931, in ...

James West co-invented a microphone that 90% of all microphones used today are based on. His parents were part of the Black emancipation movement, and he attended Black Panther meetings in college.

Charlamagne tha God spoke out about troubling comments from Kanye West and schooled the rapper with a history lesson Friday. On The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne spoke candidly about West appearing on ...

A research team has developed a skin-attachable auditory sensor, which recognizes human voices in noisy environments and when users wear facemasks. The new sensor will be useful in microphones that ...