Colorful Colored Histories

[AllanCT]

Here's the guy who got the patent.

"1928 - Herman J. Fanger filed patent No. 1,895,071 on Sep. 25, 1928, granted Jan. 24, 1933, that described what came to be known as the coaxial speaker, composed of a small high frequency horn with its own diaphragm nested inside or in front of a large cone loudspeaker, based on the variable-area principle that made the center cone light and stiff for high frequencies and the outer cone flexible and highly damped for lower frequencies"

Now stop making me think about old junk.

[Mirrophonic Sound System]

The history of loudspeakers is often clouded with controversy and bias.
Take the compression-driver/coaxial as an example :
Go to Tannoy and they will tell you that they were first
with this concept.
Then there are those who say Altec/Lansing was first.

To see who was really first, check out this amazing picture :

http://www.electrojunk.com/museum_weco.htm