• Benjamin Franklin Miessner (July 27, 1890 – March 25, 1976) was an American radio engineer and inventor. He is most known for his electronic organ, electronic...
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  • Miessner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Benjamin Miessner (1890–1976), American radio engineer and inventor Steven Miessner (1960–2009)...
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    piano, though the sound is different. The instrument was invented by Benjamin Miessner, who had worked on various types of electric pianos since the early...
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    that was both portable and sounded like the acoustic grand model. Benjamin Miessner had been working on pickup and amplification techniques since the...
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    have gotten it to market as quickly as they did as brothers Otto and Benjamin Miessner had almost completed a similar instrument with the same name. Theremin's...
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  • Indiana, Miessner was the son of Charles Miessner and Mary Miessner (née Reutepohler) and the older brother of Benjamin Franklin Miessner. He graduated...
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  • Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator (b. 1888) 1976 – Benjamin Miessner, American radio engineer and inventor (b. 1890) 1979 – Robert Madgwick...
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    and were made by Victor Pfeil, Oskar Vierling, George Eisenberg, Benjamin Miessner, George Beauchamp, Hugo Benioff and Fredray Kislingbury. These violins...
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    bottleneck, as vacuum tube circuits of those days are bulky and unstable. Benjamin Miessner realized that a hybrid approach, using acoustic tone generators along...
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  • Karalli, Russian ballerina, choreographer, and actress (d. 1972) 1890 – Benjamin Miessner, American radio engineer and inventor (d. 1976) 1890 – Armas Taipale...
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