KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -He is known worldwide as the co-inventor of the foil electret microphone. This is a type of condenser microphone upon which 90 percent of all microphones used today are based (such as telephones, sound and music recording equipment, and hearing aids).

Detailed explanation-2: -For co-inventing the foil electret microphone in 1962. Ninety percent of the two billion microphones produced annually and used in everyday items such as telephones, hearing aids, camcorders, and multimedia computers employ electret technology.

Detailed explanation-3: -Scientist James West on Finding Passion, Inventing the Electret Microphone, and Pushing Through Adversity. Curiosity and grit propelled the invention of the electret microphone, the most widely used microphone in technology today.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.