Paul W Klipsch
| Paul Wilbur Klipsch | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 9, 1904 Elkhart, Indiana |
| Died | May 5, 2002 (aged 98) Hope, Arkansas |
| Residence |
Hope, Arkansas Houston, Texas Palo Alto, California Schenectady, New York Las Cruces, New Mexico El Paso, Texas Lordsburg, New Mexico Silver City, New Mexico Elkhart, Indiana |
| Occupation | Engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, lieutenant colonel, geophysicist, pilot |
| Employer |
Klipsch Audio Technologies Klipsch & Associates US Army Subterrex Independent Exploration Co. Chilean Nitrate Mining Co. General Electric |
| Title | Paul Wilbur |
Paul Wilbur Klipsch (born March 9, 1904 in Elkhart, Indiana – died: May 5, 2002 in Hope, Arkansas) was an American engineer and high fidelity audio pioneer, known for developing a high-efficiency folded horn loudspeaker. Unsatisfied with the sound quality of phonographs and early speaker systems, Klipsch used scientific principles to develop a corner horn speaker that sounded more lifelike than its predecessors.
The Klipschorn, which today is still manufactured and sold worldwide, proved popular. The resulting acoustics career of Klipsch spanned from 1946, when he founded one of the first U.S. loudspeaker companies, to 2000 when the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society published one of his papers. He died on May 5, 2002 at the age of 98.
Fred Klipsch, former Klipsch owner and chairman and cousin to founder Paul Wilbur Klipsch, said, “Paul was a verifiable genius who could have chosen any number of vocations, but the world sounds a lot better because he chose audio.”
In 1978, Paul W. Klipsch was awarded the Audio Engineering Society's second highest honor, the Silver Medal, for his contributions to speaker design and distortion measurement. In 1997, he was inducted into the Engineering and Science Hall of Fame. In 2004, at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), he was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame.
Klipsch received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University in 1926, an EE (Engineer's degree) in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1934, and an honorary Doctor of Laws from New Mexico State University (NMSU) in 1981. The NMSU engineering department was renamed the Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1995, in honor of Paul W. Klipsch.
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