Chester Williams Rice

Chester Williams Rice (December 16, 1888 – March 8, 1951) was an American electrical engineer[1] who was the joint inventor in 1925 of the moving coil loudspeaker along with Edward W. Kellogg.[2]

Career
The first moving coil cone loudspeaker, developed by Chester W. Rice and Edward W. Kellogg at General Electric Laboratory in Schenectady, New York in 1925

Rice was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1888 and educated at The Albany Academy and Harvard College, from which he received an S.B. and an M.E.E. in 1911.[1] He was later employed by General Electric in Schenectady, New York.[1]

In 1925, Rice, while working for General Electric, published a paper with Edward W. Kellogg outlining an early moving coil loudspeaker. The paper also discussed a way of boosting power to amplifiers; this was incorporated in General Electric's Radiola line of radios in 1926.[2]

Personal

Rice married Helen Currier of Lynn in 1914. They had three children, Barbara, Wilbur Burrier, and Priscilla.[1]

gollark: Are you sure it isn't just Windows doing bees?
gollark: Simply undisable it.
gollark: Did you get one of the SKUs with it disabled?
gollark: If you have an Intel CPU with integrated graphics then that can do hardware encoding of a lot of things.
gollark: Ah, MPEG-4 does include non-H.264 video codecs for ??? reasons.

References
  1. Harvard College (1921). Harvard College Class of 1910 Fourth Report. Crimson Printing Company. p. 335. Born Lynn, Mass., Dec. 16, 1888. Parents Edwin Wilbur Rice, Jr., Helen Katherine Doen. School Albany Academy, Albany, ...
  2. Schoenherr, Steven E. (2001). "Rice-Kellogg". Audio Engineering Society. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.