loudspeaker
electroacoustic transducer that converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound
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Summary
loudspeaker ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,469 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Edward Washburn Kellogg[2], Chester Williams Rice[3]
- Creator: Dieter Rams[4]
- Subclass of: sound transducer[5], electrical device[6], sound generator[7]
- Part of: computer speaker[8], loudspeaker box[9], boombox[10], Line array[11], clock radio[12], wireless speaker[13], megaphone[14], headphone[15], telephone[16], walkie-talkie[17], transistor radio[18]
- Commons category: Loudspeakers[19]
- Unicode character: 🔈[20], 🔊[21], 🔉[22], 🔇[23]
- Topic's main category: Category:Loudspeakers[24]
- Commons gallery: Loudspeaker[25]
- Different from: megaphone[26], amplifier[27], loudspeaker enclosure[28], loudspeaker box[29]
- Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/03691459-n[30], http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn31/103658422-n[31]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[32]
Why It Matters
loudspeaker has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] loudspeaker is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]