Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 5:10 pm
Guglielmo Marconi might argue with you on that one, but he died nearly a century ago most likely.
Still, none of his wireless stuff would have fit on a RIck
You are probably right, no one applied miniaturized short-range radio to audio links until well after FM and at least the Nuvistor mini-tubes became popular in the 1950s, and a wireless link could be packaged small. Hearing aids were made like this starting in the 50s. But I am sure that it took the wide availability of transistors in the 60s, as you say, to make this application of wireless communications a practical reality for musicians.
But Shure claims they did it in 1953:
Various individuals and organisations claim to be the inventors of the Wireless Microphone.
Shure Incorporated claim that their "Vagabond" system from 1953 was the first.
In 1957 German audio equipment manufacturer Sennheiser, at that time called Lab W, working with the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) exhibited a wireless microphone system. From 1958 the system was marketed through Telefunken under the name of Mikroport.
Another German equipment manufacturer, Beyerdynamic, claim that first wireless microphone, was invented by Hung C. Lin. Called the "transistophone", it went into production in 1962. It is claimed that the first time a wireless microphone was used to record sound during filming of a motion picture was on Rex Harrison in the 1964 film My Fair Lady.
Still, none of his wireless stuff would have fit on a RIck
You are probably right, no one applied miniaturized short-range radio to audio links until well after FM and at least the Nuvistor mini-tubes became popular in the 1950s, and a wireless link could be packaged small. Hearing aids were made like this starting in the 50s. But I am sure that it took the wide availability of transistors in the 60s, as you say, to make this application of wireless communications a practical reality for musicians. But Shure claims they did it in 1953:
Various individuals and organisations claim to be the inventors of the Wireless Microphone.
Shure Incorporated claim that their "Vagabond" system from 1953 was the first.
In 1957 German audio equipment manufacturer Sennheiser, at that time called Lab W, working with the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) exhibited a wireless microphone system. From 1958 the system was marketed through Telefunken under the name of Mikroport.
Another German equipment manufacturer, Beyerdynamic, claim that first wireless microphone, was invented by Hung C. Lin. Called the "transistophone", it went into production in 1962. It is claimed that the first time a wireless microphone was used to record sound during filming of a motion picture was on Rex Harrison in the 1964 film My Fair Lady.