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Parker, Louis

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Parker, Louis (1906–  ) electrical engineer, inventor; born in Budapest, Hungary. He emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1923 and studied at the City College of New York. He worked on radio direction finders for aircraft, designed portable transmitters for military use, and developed an inexpensive sound system used in television receivers worldwide—his most famous invention. His Parker Instrument Corp. produced some instruments used in the Apollo moon project.


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That was why he played with Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole and Dizzie Gillespie; and, on special occasions, before our Queen and President Richard Nixon.
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He has produced more than 70 records by such acclaimed artists as Odetta, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Lightnin' Hopkins, Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, and New York's Pro Musica Antiqua.
 
 
 
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