Inventions
In 1924, Schottky co-invented the Ribbon microphone along with Dr. Gerwin Erlach. The idea was that a very fine ribbon suspended in a magnetic field could generate electric signals. This in turn lead also to the invention of the Ribbon Loudspeaker by using it in the reverse order, but not until high flux permanent magnets became available in the late 1930s.
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