George Olsen at WJZ with double button microphone 1926
An interview with bandleader George Olsen (right) in 1926 at NBC's flagship radio station WJZ in New York City. The microphone is a Western Electric double button microphone, very widely used for broadcasting and recording in the 1920s. It was sometimes called a "ring and spring" microphone because the microphone unit is suspended by springs in the center of a steel ring to prevent vibrations of the stand from being conducted to the element.
- Date
- 1926-06
- Photographer / author
- Betty Ann Gray
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- image
- Original size
- 680 × 830 pixels
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