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Harry F. Olson
Pages 406-423

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From page 407... ... Olson developed several types of microphones for broadcasting and recording, high-fidelity loudspeakers, phonograph pickups and recording equipment, underwater sound equipment, and sound motion picture ant! public adctress systems; he contributed substantially to the development of the RCA magnetic tape recorder for television and the RCA music synthesizer. Read the entire page →
From page 408... ... Ellett he conclucted research on atom beams. One experiment, verifying the Maxwell velocity distribution of atoms, used a small boiler partially filled with cadmium and equipped with a narrow aperture to supply a fine beam of atoms. Read the entire page →
From page 409... ... Especially noteworthy were his bidirectional velocity microphones and his unictirectional cardioid microphones. He continued to develop new types of microphones, inclucling higher-orcler gradient microphones, ultra-clirectional microphones, noisecancelling microphones, and various types of miniature microphones which were usect both in industry anti in the military. Read the entire page →
From page 410... ... Early in 1950, RCA asked Dr. Olson to develop a team in his laboratory to make significant improvements in magnetic tape recording that could lead to the magnetic tape recording of television signals. Read the entire page →
From page 411... ... , the John Ericsson Medal of the American Society of Swedish Engineers (1963) , the Emile Berliner Award of the Audio Engineering Society (1965) Read the entire page →
From page 412... ... He was a member of the American Society of Motion Picture anct Television Engineers, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical ant! Electronic Engineers, anct Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. Read the entire page →
From page 413... ... Like his mother, she was an amateur artist, and her prominently clisplayed oil paintings enlivened his office walls throughout his career. Read the entire page →
From page 414... ... , Iowa Wesleyan MEMBERSHIPS Tau Beta Pi Sigma Xi Acoustical Society of America, Past-President Audio Engineering Society, Past-President Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers American Society of Swedish Engineers American Physical Society National Academy of Sciences HONORS AND AWARDS 1940 Modern Pioneer Award of the National Association of Manufacturers 1952 John Potts Gold Medal of the Audio Engineering Society 1955 Samuel L Warner Gold Medal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers 1956 The John Scott Medal of the City of Philadelphia 1956 The Achievement Award of the Institute of Radio Engineers 1963 John Ericsson Gold Medal of the American Society of SwedE. Read the entire page →
From page 415... ... HARRY F OLSON PATENTS 1932 Velocity Microphone 1932 Unidirectional Cardioid Microphone 1935 Double Voice Coil Loudspeaker 1940 Multiple Flare Horn 1941 Line Microphone"Shotgun Microphone" 1942 Multiple Loudspeakers 1949 1950 1950 1951 1953 1958 1961 1961 1961 1963 1964 Air Suspension Loudspeaker Synthetic Reverberation Functional Sound Absorbers Single Element Cardioid Microphone Noise Discriminator, Threshold Type Electronic Music Synthesizer Speech Analyzer Electronic Sound Absorber Music Composing Machine Stereophonic Loudspeaker Stereophonic Disk System 415 1,885,001 1,892,645 2,007,748 2,203,875 2,228,886 2,269,284 2,490,466 2,493,638 2,502,016 2,539,671 2,645,684 2,855,816 2,971,058 2,983,790 3,007,362 3,104,729 3,118,977 Read the entire page →
From page 416... ... Am., 2~4~:485. Mass controlled electrodynamic microphones; the ribbon microphone. Read the entire page →
From page 417... ... With Frank Massa. On the realistic reproduction of sound with particular reference to sound motion pictures. Read the entire page →
From page 418... ... 1944 The action of direct radiator loudspeakers. Read the entire page →
From page 419... ... 1951 Direct radiator loudspeaker enclosures. Audio Eng., 35~11~:34. Read the entire page →
From page 420... ... A magnetic tape system for recording and reproducing standard FCC color television signals. Read the entire page →
From page 421... ... With Herbert Belar and Ricardo deSobrino. Demonstration of speech processing system consisting of a speech analyzer, translator, typer, and synthesizer. Read the entire page →
From page 422... ... Soc., 17~4~:654. Direct radiator loudspeaker enclosures. Read the entire page →
From page 423... ... New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. Microphone thermal agitation noise. Read the entire page →

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... Olson developed several types of microphones for broadcasting and recording, high-fidelity loudspeakers, phonograph pickups and recording equipment, underwater sound equipment, and sound motion picture ant! public adctress systems; he contributed substantially to the development of the RCA magnetic tape recorder for television and the RCA music synthesizer.

Harry F. Olson Pages 406-423

Harry F. Olson
Pages 406-423