History of Computers - Microphone

by Nataly Torres

The microphone is a sensor that allows us to transmit sounds to a larger audience, both live and digitally, by changing sound waves into electrical currents.

Overview

The invention of the microphone is widely credited to Emile Berliner in 1876. Around the same time, Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with transmitters and invented the telephone, whose technology aided in the creation of the carbon microphone. Today, microphones are an integrated technology in computers, phones, and many other devices. They have advanced and now there are many different types of microphones such as the dynamic, ribbion, condenser, wireless and handsfree microphones.

Significance

The uses of microphones expand widely, from music to communicating from space. Now they are essential to communicating with larger masses. They make verval communication possible and aided in scientific breakthroughs. The expansion in the different types of microphones has let to improvements in video productions, changes in music, and it allows us to video chat with people from around the world.