{"id":9589,"date":"2021-02-19T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/19\/james-west-inventor-of-the-electret-mic-has-the-knack\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:48:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:48:54","slug":"james-west-inventor-of-the-electret-mic-has-the-knack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/19\/james-west-inventor-of-the-electret-mic-has-the-knack\/","title":{"rendered":"James West, Inventor of the Electret Mic, has THE KNACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/James-West-and-Gerhard-Sessler-at-Bell-Labs-in-1976.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"525\" data-original-width=\"348\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/James-West-and-Gerhard-Sessler-at-Bell-Labs-in-1976.jpg\" width=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">James West (r) with Gerhard Sessler (l) Bell Labs 1976<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/02\/17\/james-west-began-40-years-at-bell-labs-with-world-changing-microphone-tech\/\"><b>https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/02\/17\/james-west-began-40-years-at-bell-labs-with-world-changing-microphone-tech\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>For many reasons, this is a really nice story. It is about a kid with The Knack, a kid who, like young James Clerk Maxwell, wanted to understand how things work. It is also a technology story, the story of the invention of a device very important to us: the electret microphone. (Remember the earlier carbon mics in telephones? I&#8217;ll bet more than a few of our readers are guilty of stealing a few of those mics from pay phones.) And it is a reminder of the benefits of helping kids who might need a mentor&#8230; or and Elmer. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Thanks Hack-A-Day. And three cheers for James West. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James West (r) with Gerhard Sessler (l) Bell Labs 1976 https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2021\/02\/17\/james-west-began-40-years-at-bell-labs-with-world-changing-microphone-tech\/ For many reasons, this is a really nice story. It is about a kid with The Knack, a kid who, like young James Clerk Maxwell, wanted to understand how things work. It is also a technology story, the story of the invention of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/19\/james-west-inventor-of-the-electret-mic-has-the-knack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;James West, Inventor of the Electret Mic, has THE KNACK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,274,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knack-stories","category-maxwell-james-clerk","category-microphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9591,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589\/revisions\/9591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}