John Kenneth Hilliard
Engineer, Deceased Person
1901 – 1989
Who was John Kenneth Hilliard?
John Kenneth Hilliard was an American acoustical and electrical engineer who pioneered a number of important loudspeaker concepts and designs. He helped develop the practical use of recording sound for film, and won an Academy Award in 1935. He designed movie theater sound systems, and he worked on radar as well as submarine detection equipment during World War II. Hilliard collaborated with James B. "Jim" Lansing in creating the long-lived Altec Voice of the Theatre speaker system. Hilliard researched high-intensity acoustics, vibration, miniaturization and long-line communications for NASA and the Air Force. Near the end of his career, he standardized noise-control criteria for home construction in California, a pattern since applied to new homes throughout the U.S.
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- Born
- Oct 1, 1901
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- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Hamline University
- University of Minnesota
- Employment
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Altec Lansing
- Ling-Temco-Vought
- United Artists
- Died
- Mar 21, 1989
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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