Edward_W._Kellogg

Edward W. Kellogg

Edward W. Kellogg

American inventor

Edward Washburn Kellogg (February 20, 1883 – May 29, 1960) was an American inventor who invented the moving coil loudspeaker in 1925 along with Chester W. Rice at General Electric[1]

Edward W. Kellogg and Chester W. Rice with the moving coil loudspeaker in 1925

Biography

He was born in Washington in 1883. He was a graduate of Phillips Academy, in Andover (Class of 1902)

He was the joint inventor of the moving coil loudspeaker in 1925 along with Chester W. Rice at General Electric, and independently by Edward Wente at Bell Labs. Kellogg also patented an electrostatic loudspeaker in 1934.

Kellogg was the first director of the GE Advanced Technology Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, which later became a part of RCA Victor in Camden, New Jersey (and is now part of Lockheed Martin).

He died in 1960.

References

  1. [1]
    "Biographies". www.coutant.org. Retrieved August 11, 2019.

Media related to Edward W. Kellogg at Wikimedia Commons


Stub icon

This article about an American inventor is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Edward_W._Kellogg, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.