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He holds over 250 foreign and U.S. patents for the production and design of microphones

James Edward Maceo West born February 10, 1931 – The work of James Edward Maceo West transformed the way people around the world hear and transmit sound. In 1962, West, then a research scientist at Bell Laboratories, developed the foil electret microphone in partnership with his colleague Dr. Gerhard M. Sessler.  Until that time, most microphones, which transform sound into an electrical…