George Eash

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George H. Eash (1912 - July 6, 1980 in Provo , Utah ) was a sound engineer and inventor. He was the inventor of a series of tape cassettes with a single reel. In the 1950s he worked table-to-table with Bernard Cousino , who invented the endless tape loop used in his cassettes and initially used it on open reel tape recorders. Eash also developed other housings such as the Fidelipac , which was also used as the “ NAB Cartridge” (“cart”) in radio technology, and, as a consultant to Earl “Madman” Muntz, the 4-track cassette ( Muntz Stereo-Pak or CARtridge) ). He was defeated in a legal dispute over the patent over the 8-track cassette from Lear.

Life

In 1952, Eash, who worked for an advertising agency, rented an office at Bernhard Cousinos Electronic Workshop, Toledo, Ohio .

In 1954, Eash had produced the prototype of a cassette for RCA Victor , which was driven by the rubber roller of the capstan , with 1200 feet of endless belt by hand and applied for a patent when his employer Paulsen died the following day, December 23, 1954. When his company was continued in trust, Eash was informed that the project would be discontinued.

The 1954 patent was granted in 1957 and Eash works for Viking Corporation in Minneapolis . The result was a cartridge called the "35 Series," which contained 600 feet of tape and operated at a tape speed of 7.5 inches per second (~ 19 cm / s).

In 1961 Eash lived in Van Nuys , a northern part of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, where Earl "Madman" Muntz ran part of his business. Eash acted as a consultant for Muntz and developed the Muntz Stereo-Pak , the so-called 4-track cassette and the appropriate player for it , from his Fidelipac .

In 1967 Eash, who worked for TelePro Industries, was defeated in a patent dispute. The judge in Wichita, Kansas said that Eash's 1954 patent was merely an obvious modification of the Mohawk Message Repeater. In the Mohawk's cassette, the rotating roll of tape ran around a stationary core. Eash, on the other hand, had patented a rotatable bobby (a tape winding core open to one side) in the cassette. This decision benefited William "Bill" Lear , who now had a clear legal position for his 8-track cassette .

Eash died of bowel disease at the age of 68 in Provo , a suburb of Utah's Salt Lake County . He left a wife, son and daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cartridge Inventor George Eash Dead Billboard Volume 92, No. 29, July 18, 1980, p. 97
  2. ↑ Barry Kernfeld: Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929 . University of Chicago Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-226-43184-0 ( google.de [accessed March 12, 2018]).
  3. ↑ a b c d Jay Ehler: Earl Muntz Meets George Eash Billboard Volume 84, No. 47, November 18, 1972, pp. 62, 76, 78
  4. ↑ a b TelePro Cartridge Patent Fails , Billboard Volume 79, No. 27, July 8, 1967 p. 3
  5. ↑ Barry Kernfeld: Pop Song Piracy: Disobedient Music Distribution since 1929 , The University of Chicago Press 2011 ISBN 978-0-226-43183-3
  6. ↑ Russel Sanjek: American Popular Music and Its Business: The First Four Hundred Years , Volume 3, Oxford University Press, Ney York 1988 ISBN 0-19-504311-1
  7. ↑ USD201280S Magnetic tape playback unit , George H. Eash, filed January 23, 1964, issued June 8, 1965
personal data
SURNAME Eash, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eash, George H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sound engineer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1912
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1980
Place of death Provo , Utah