Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 89, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1928 — Page 14

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‘MIKE' NOW IS 50 YEARS OLD Came Into Own After Long Obscurity. The fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the microphone, the invention that made possible radio broadcasting, finds “Mike,” as now is familiarly called, at last given popular recognition as one of the really great inventions contributing to human happiness. For more than forty years, while recognized by scientists as the essential factor in telephone transmission, the public at large knew nothing about the microphone and cared less. But today, more than 20,000,000 radio “fans" know that it is the microphone that transmits to them their daily dozen from the air. Tor without “Mike” there is no broadcasting. Over fifty years ago. on April 14, 1877, Emile Berliner, a young German immigrant, unable to speak pure English, filed his application for a patent on the microphone. His first crude instrument, constructed from a small toy drum, a steel dress button and a needle actually had talked. The microphone of today, as used both in the telephone transmitter and in radio broadcasting, is merely a refinement of the loose contact principle applied by Berliner with his toy drum, dress stud and needle. Although Berliner also is the father of the disc talking machine, it is his oldest child “Mike” that is

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