Turner Microphone Company
type: Item
description: American manufacturer of microphones
alternative label: Turner Co., Cedar Rapids
alternative label: Turner
Field: sound, music and amplification
Type of information: business
Country: USA
City: Cedar Rapids
Founding date: 1931-01-01T00:00:00Z
dissolved or abolished: 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
context: The Turner Microphone company was founded by David Turner and Everett Foster in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1931. The company soon began making microphones and public address systems. Turner opened a larger factory in 1936 and produced a large quantity of microphones and grew to 1200 employees by the 1970s. The company was sold to Telex in 1978 and ceased operations in 1979.[3]
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Wikidata source: Q115803026
Internal image: Turner_Logo.jpg
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