Harvey Fletcher
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About
'Father of stereophonic sound' who became a leading authority on how humans hear, and how sound devices should be made. He was President of the American Physical Society and was only the second ever honorary fellow of Acoustical Society of America, after Thomas Edison.
Before Fame
After completing his studies at the University of Chicago, he joined the Western Electric Company, working at the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Trivia
His findings on human speech, hearing and music, which revolutionized the transmission and playing of sound, were summed up in his influential 1922 text Speech and Hearing.
Family Life
He was born in Provo, Utah, the son of pioneer Mormon parents.
Associated With
He collaborated with famed conductor Leopold Stokowski to give the earliest public performance of stereo sound, in a Carnegie Hall concert in 1940.
