Rice, Chester W.

Rice, Chester W. Rice was a pioneering researcher who, along with Edward Kellog, came up with the basic design of the modern, direct-radiator loudspeaker, which had a small coil-driven mass-controlled diaphragm in a baffle with a broad mid-frequency range and relatively uniform response. (Edward Wente at Bell Labs had independently discovered this same principle, and filed a patent for it in 1925, with the patent granted in 1931.) Kellog and Rice worked for GE, and together they published their…