Bell Laboratories

CTL-E-4085 · Institution · company · 1950s–2000s

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Research institution where James E. West worked as an acoustical scientist from 1957; site of the 1962 foil-electret microphone co-invention with Gerhard Sessler.

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Also known as: Bell Labs

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James E. West — affiliated with → this record
Walter Lincoln Hawkins — affiliated with → this record

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Wikipedia — James West (inventor)

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