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The first microphone is invented by Johann Philipp Reis, and is called the "Reis Telephone"
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Thomas Edison and Elisha Gray invent the "Liquid Transmitter" in the US
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Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner invent the "Carbon Microphone," but Edison gets awarded the patent
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Ernst Werner Von Siemens invents the "Moving Coil Microphone in Germany
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Thomas Edison invents invents the carbon button microphone in the US
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E.C Went invents the Condenser Microphone at Western Electric in the US
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Paul Langevin invents the Piezoelectric Microphone in France
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Yoguchi invents the Electret Microphone in Japan
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Captain H.J Round invents the Marconi-Sykes Magnetophone in England
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Walter H. Schottky and Dr. Erwin Gerlach invent the Ribbon Dynamic Microphone in Germany
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E. C. Wente and A. L. Thuras invent the Electrodynamic Moving-Coil Microphone
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Georg Neumann invents the Multi-Pattern Microphone in Germany
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Raymond A. Litke invents Wireless Microphone
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Ernie Seeler invents the Top-Address Unidirectional Microphone at shure
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James E. West and Gerhard M. Sessler invent the Electret Condenser Microphone at Bell Labs
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D. Hohm and Gerhard M. Sessler invent the MEMS Microphone
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Engineers at Georg Neumann GmbH invent the Digital Microphone
