David Edward Hughes invented the carbon microphone. He lived from 1831-1900, and lived in London, England.
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Emile Berliner invented the first microphone and the first gramophone.
The oldest microphone would have to be an echo canyon followed by cupped hands around the mouth. Thomas Edison invented the first electronic microphone.
Emile Berliner and Thomas Edison invented the first carbon microphone within a month of one another in 1877. Patent rights were eventually assigned to Edison. For a more detailed history of the microphone you might wish to see the wikipedia article.
Several early inventors built primitive microphones, called transmitters, prior to Alexander Bell, but the first commercially practical microphone was the carbon microphone conceived in October 1876 by Thomas Edison. Many early developments in microphone design took place at Bell Laboratories, including the first condenser microphone, described by Wente in 1914. Cheers ebs
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In 1877, German immigrant, Emile Berliner invented the microphone.
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