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Makers Hall of Fame

Portraits of inventors, founders, and magazine editors whose work shows up in this archive. Notes come from the files that arrived with the photos.

Flurrydyne Neosho Management Staff, 19 May 1965

Flurrydyne Neosho Management Staff — 19 May 1965

Amar Bose — Amar Bose Founder of Bose Corporation.

Arthur Atwater Kent — Arthur Atwater Kent Atwater Kent radios, Philadelphia.

Avery Fisher — Avery Fisher Fisher Radio; later Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.

Bernard Kardon — Bernard Kardon Co-founder of Harman Kardon (source file was labeled BernardKarmon).

Bob Carver — Bob Carver Phase Linear, Carver, and Sunfire amplifiers.

Charlie Kittleson and Joe Roberts at CES — Charlie Kittleson & Joe Roberts At CES. Charlie Kittleson (Vacuum Tube Valley) and Joe Roberts (Sound Practices).

David Bogen — David Bogen David Bogen Co., New York — PA amplifiers and the Blue Book of Sound Equipment.

David Hafler — David Hafler In 1950 founded Acrosound with Herbert Keroes and popularized the ultra-linear output stage. In 1954 founded Dynaco with Ed Laurent and brought affordable high-quality kits to hobbyists.

D.T.N. Williamson — D.T.N. Williamson David Theodore Nelson Williamson (1923–1992), F.R.S. 1968. Designer of the Williamson amplifier, originally using Osram KT66 and L63 valves from the M-O Valve Company.

Eric Barbour — Eric Barbour Vacuum Tube Valley; tube historian and designer.

Etsuro Nakamichi — Etsuro Nakamichi Nakamichi cassette decks and later high-end audio.

Frank McIntosh — Frank McIntosh McIntosh Laboratory.

Gene Czerwinski — Gene Czerwinski Founder of Cerwin-Vega. Photographed in front of Cerwin-Vega loudspeakers at a Los Angeles AES convention, circa 1975.

James B. Lansing — James B. Lansing Altec Lansing and JBL.

Joe Roberts — Joe Roberts Sound Practices magazine.

John Atwood — John Atwood One Electron / transformer and vintage-circuit work.

Martin Kiebert — Martin Kiebert Audio engineer; “System Design Factors for Audio Amplifiers,” IRE, 1954.

Matthew Polk — Matthew Polk Polk Audio (source file spelled Mathew).

Nelson Pass — Nelson Pass Threshold and Pass Labs.

Paul W. Klipsch — Paul W. Klipsch Klipschorn and Klipsch loudspeakers.

Peter L. Jensen — Peter L. Jensen Born 1886 in Falster, Denmark; came to America in 1909. With Edwin Pridham in 1915 developed the Magnavox, the first loudspeaker, used to amplify President Wilson in 1919.

Rudy Bozak — Rudy Bozak R.T. Bozak loudspeakers.

Sidney Harman — Sidney Harman Co-founder of Harman Kardon.

Stan White — Stan White Stan White, Inc., Chicago. Advertisement with Duke Ellington, March 1955 — curled exponential-horn cabinet speakers and Powrtron amplifiers.