Harry Ferdinand Olson
Harry Ferdinand Olson (born December 28, 1901 in Mount Pleasant , Iowa , † April 1, 1982 ) invented the synthesizer in 1955 together with Herbert Belar .
Life
He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa in 1924, his master 's degree in 1925 and his doctorate in 1928. In 1928 he went to RCA and developed the unidirectional microphone. During the Second World War he developed underwater microphones. In the late 1940s he developed the standards for hi-fi . In 1952 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society , and in 1959 a member of the National Academy of Sciences .
In 1962 he presented a speech processing system for speech recognition and speech synthesis .
Works
- Music, physics and engineering
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=JASMAN000034000010001535000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes&ref=no ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Biographical Memoir (PDF file; 600 kB)
- Oral history: Harry F. Olson
- njinvent.org
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Olson, Harry Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mount Pleasant, Iowa |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1982 |