Jewish Invention Myths: The Microphone

 

Source: https://www.renegadetribune.com/jewish-invention-myths-the-microphone/

 

by Karl Radl

 

Another jewish invention myth is the idea that jews invented the microphone.

 

This as usual is complete and utter nonsense.

 

The claim – as shown by ‘MNews’’ entry is that:

 

‘Emile Berliner – Microphone, gramophone, helicopter

 

Emile Berliner is the man who gave the world several inventions at once: a microphone, a gramophone, and a helicopter.’ (1)

 

This is further confirmed by ‘Boulder Jewish News’. (2)

 

The problem is that while there is an element of truth in the contention – since all good lies are based upon a grain of truth – as Emile Berliner did indeed apply for a patent for microphone in 1877 along with Thomas Edison and David Hughes.

 

The problem is that the microphone had already been invented in 1856 by Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci – who also invented the telephone which has also been falsely attributed to a jew – (3) in order to communicate with his bed-ridden wife. (4)

 

However, even if we ignore Meucci’s invention in 1856 and focus on the microphone as a standalone invention then the priority is still not given to Emile Berliner or Thomas Edison but rather to David Hughes (5)

 

This is because Hughes demonstrated his microphone several years before Alexander Graham Bell and Emile Berliner did so in 1877. (6)

 

So, no Emile Berliner didn’t invent the microphone: either Antonio Meucci or David Hughes did!

 

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References

 

(1) https://mnews.world/en/news/the-great-jews-and-their-inventions

 

(2) https://boulderjewishnews.org/2009/an-informal-list-of-jewish-inventions-innovations-and-radical-ideas/

 

(3) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/jewish-invention-myths-the-telephone

 

(4) https://www.inventorsdigest.com/articles/who-invented-the-telephone/

 

(5) Anton Huurdeman, 2003, ‘The Worldwide History of Telecommunications’, 1st Edition, John Wiley: Hoboken, p. 89 also see https://web.archive.org/web/20191101192223/http://telephonecollecting.org/DavidHughes.html and https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Hughes

 

(6) Paul Nahin, 2002, ‘Oliver Heaviside: The Life, Work, and Times of an Electrical Genius of the Victorian Age’, 1^st Edition, John Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, p. 67

 

via Karl Radl’s Substack