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    and Edward W. Kellogg mating an acoustic horn to the speaker driver in 1925. In 1926, Bell System engineers Albert L. Thuras and Edward C. Wente modified...
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  • Capps (1952) Edward W. Kellogg (1953) J.P. Maxfield (1954) Lee De Forest (1955) Sherman Fairchild (1955) O.B. Hanson (1956) Edward C. Wente (1957) Samuel...
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    by a single driver to produce multicell horns. Patented in 1936 by Edward C. Wente of Western Electric, multicell horns have been used in loudspeakers...
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    from the RCA Photophone, with the advent of a light-valve invented by Edward C. Wente. In this system, one camera shot the frames, and a second lens-less...
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    Electric recording system that utilized the light valve invented by Edward C. Wente in 1923. Despite this change, Fox continued to use the Movietone system...
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    Arthur J. Mason, Edwin G. Steele, Walter L. Steele, Henry M. Sutton, Edward C. Wente 1932 Halvor O. Hem, Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Carl George...
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  • Firestone No rationale given 1957 Harvey Fletcher No rationale given 1959 Edward C. Wente No rationale given 1961 Georg von Békésy "For his deft proficiency...
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  • A. Turner Harold C. Urey M. S. Vallarta Hugo B. Wahlin Alan T. Waterman E. C. Watson William W. Watson R. L. Wegel Edward C. Wente Hermann Weyl Charles...
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    Egyptians wrote epistles, most often for pedagogical reasons. Egyptologist Edward Wente (1990) speculates that the Fifth-dynasty Pharaoh Djedkare Isesi—in his...
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    to the throne by his son, Amenhotep III. In 1980, James Harris and Edward F. Wente conducted X-ray examinations of New Kingdom Pharaoh's crania and skeletal...
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