Microphone

Description

Hughes microphone with carbon pencil poised between rigid and flexibly-mounted carbon blocks, each block marked S, the flexible mounting a shield-shaped piece of thin veneer suspended from brass brackets on two wood baluster supports, on wood base with two terminals, c. 1879

Museum reference

T.2006.225

Collection

Industry and Commerce : Communications

Object name

Microphone

Production information

Hughes, David Edward, 1831 - 1900, Inventor
London, England, Northern Europe

Date

c. 1879

Materials

Carbon, Wood

Associations

Hughes, David Edward, 1831 - 1900

Exhibitions

• Communicate (08 Jul 2016)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

'The Engineer' May 17th 1878 p343

On display

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science and technology, communicate