User talk:Youngren

Litke, Raymond A.
I greatly trimmed the text at Raymond A. Litke because the guy is categorically not the first to make a wireless microphone. Others produced such microphones a decade earlier, and Sony produced a popular model at the same time as Litke. Binksternet (talk) 22:47, 17 January 2012 (UTC)


 * And again. Stop making stuff up, such as the supposed "world's first workable wireless microphone". That honor goes to RAF technician and ice skater Reg Moores who designed one for "Aladdin On Ice" in Brighton, UK, first used in front of an audience in 1949. Commercial systems followed: the Vagabond from Shure Brothers in 1953, the Mikroport from Sennheiser/Telefunken in 1957, and the Sony CR-4 in 1958.
 * Further nonsense that you wrote is the claim "Litke coined the term 'lavalier microphone'" which is provably false once you crack open a copy of Radio & Television News from 1953 and read the article called "'Lavalier' Mike". There's also the 1954 Shure Brothers datasheet for the Model 530 microphone which includes a "lavalier cord" and a belt clip so that it could be worn as a lavalier microphone. Lavaliers were also made by Electrovoice and others during this time. Harry F. Olson used the term in the 1950s in his audio engineering books. Litke could not possibly be counted as coining the term.
 * Even more nonsense is the sentence: "This was the first time the American public ever saw the wireless microphone in operation." This is quite false as Herbert "Mac" McClelland, founder of McClelland Sound in Wichita, Kansas, put a wireless microphone on a baseball umpire at major league games broadcast by NBC from Lawrence-Dumont Stadium in 1951. So you see, Litke gets nothing but an undeserved patent. He doesn't get any technical firsts at all. Binksternet (talk) 04:03, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

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