Paul GAH Voigt
Paul Gustavus Adolphus Helmuth Voigt (born December 9, 1901 in London , † February 9, 1981 in Brighton (Ontario) ) was an English inventor and audio pioneer.
His German parents immigrated to England at the end of the 19th century.
He studied at Dulwich College and University College London and received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering in 1922. He had published his first article in Wireless World as early as 1920 .
He then started at JE Hough, Ltd., Edison Bell Works (see The Winner Records ), where he mainly worked on radio technology. He also developed microphones, amplifiers, transformers, pickups and loudspeakers. In Edison Bell, he began developing his Tractrix - horn for cinemas.
After Edison Bell was taken over by Decca as a result of the economic crisis in 1932, he founded his own company Voigt Patents Ltd. in Sydenham , London in 1933 . , in which he further developed cinema loudspeakers, moving coil pickups and a corner horn.
In 1934 he met (Oliver Peter?) OP Lowther of Lowther Manufacturing Company Ltd. , with whom he worked together in the future and published the Lowther-Voigt Radio in 1936 .
After the Second World War, new permanent magnets were available and he developed a loudspeaker with a magnetic flux of 2.3 Tesla in the air gap.
In 1946 he was one of the first members of the British Kinematography Society .
Because of his German ancestry, he ran into problems in England. In 1950 he sold his company to Lowther and relocated to Toronto . His new company was unsuccessful as a result of the Korean War and he taught electronics. In 1960 he moved to Ottawa where he worked on Radio Regulations for the Canadian government until he retired in 1969.
He has received 32 British patents.
literature
- The Gramophone. November and December 1965.
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Voigt ( Memento from June 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on aes.org
- ↑ Paul Voigt on lowthervoigtmuseum.org.uk (with picture)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Voigt, Paul GAH |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Voigt, Paul Gustavus Adolphus Helmuth Voigt (full name); Voigt, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English inventor and audio pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1981 |
| Place of death | Brighton (Ontario) |