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At age 12, he was interested in electricity by taking apart radios
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James West went to college at Temple university
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Hired as an acoustical scientist by Bell after graduating with Physics degree.
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With Gerhard Sessler invented an inexpensive, compact microphone
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They improved the microphone with the electret transducers
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Mass production began for microphone.
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West died .
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Over 90% of microphones today in telephones, tape recorders, baby monitors, and hearing aids uses West's technology
