Hempstead County Man Honored For Invention
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The inventor of the Klipschorn speaker was recently
inducted into the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame.
The late Paul Wilbur Klipsch of Hope was honored as the
speaker`s inventor and as the president and chief engineer of
Klipsch and Associates.
Klipsch held patents in the fields of geophysics, ballistics and
acoustics. He also has been inducted into the Audio Hall of Fame
and the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame, and he received the
Audio Engineering Society`s Silver Medal.
Klipsch was born in Indiana. He moved to Hope during World War
Two.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
