Talk:Harvey Fletcher

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Harvey Fletcher article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Biography: Science and Academia

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the science and academia work group.

‹See TfM›

Physics: Biographies Low‑importance

	Physics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Physics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Physics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PhysicsWikipedia:WikiProject PhysicsTemplate:WikiProject Physicsphysics articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by Biographies Taskforce.

Brigham Young University

	Harvey Fletcher is part of WikiProject Brigham Young University, an attempt to write quality articles about Brigham Young University. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.Brigham Young UniversityWikipedia:WikiProject Brigham Young UniversityTemplate:WikiProject Brigham Young UniversityBrigham Young University articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Chicago

	Chicago portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Chicago, which aims to improve all articles or pages related to Chicago or the Chicago metropolitan area.ChicagoWikipedia:WikiProject ChicagoTemplate:WikiProject ChicagoChicago articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Harold B. Lee Library Mid‑importance

	This article is related to the Harold B. Lee Library holdings. Learn more about this collaborative project to improve coverage related to the BYU library's holdings, and how you can help here.Harold B. Lee LibraryWikipedia:GLAM/Harold B. Lee LibraryTemplate:WikiProject Harold B. Lee LibraryHarold B. Lee Library-related articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article has related holdings in the Harold B. Lee Library's University Archives.

The Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use require that editors disclose their "employer, client, and affiliation" with respect to any paid contribution; see WP:PAID. For advice about reviewing paid contributions, see WP:COIRESPONSE.

Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk · contribs) has been paid by BYU. Their editing has included contributions to this article. COI declarations on userpage
Katelyn Sun (BYU) (talk · contribs) has been paid by BYU. Their editing has included contributions to this article. COI declarations on userpage

Millican oil drop experiment

A link to his posthumous article [[1]]

Fletcher wrote an interesting article about his work on the Millican oil drop experiment that was published in Physics Today shortly after his passing. It would be good to include this link if you have it. --Drswenson 15:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A full history of Fletcher's contributions was published in: Allen, J. B. (1996) "Harvey Fletcher's role in the creation of communication acoustics"; J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 99 (4) pp 1825--1839, April ([pdf]); Invited: Rewrite of material from preface of the 1995 ASA Edition of Fletcher's 1953 book, with some important additions on Fletcher's critical band. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nellatnoj (talk • contribs) 05:22, 27 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 09:53, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Credit for the audiometer

Several others are credited with the audiometer, such as Prof. Hughes as mentioned here in 1879。 The lede will need correction or rewording to elaborate on what type of audiometer he invented. HarryZilber (talk) 02:42, 3 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I clarified this to say he invented the 2-A audiometer and added a source for that information. Is that sufficient? Should I find more information about the 2-A audiometer? Rwelean (talk) 18:39, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Other inventions

[2] lists the top 100 most influential LDS notables, and list #7: "Harvey Fletcher - inventor of the hearing aid, stereophonic sound, the audiometer, more than 20 other inventions." Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 22:39, 8 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fletcher did not invent 'the first' electronic hearing aid. (That word 'first' is always risky.) See for example US patent #1343717, applied for on 06/11/1919 by one Earl C. Hanson, a naval engineer who created a seven pound, battery-powered device he called a Vactuphone. It used a Western Electric 205-A 'peanut tube'. (More here) On the other hand, the multi-tube hearing aid Fletcher made for Alfred Dupont (at some point in the 1920s) was not portable. WP article History of hearing aids suggests that "The first electric hearing aid, called the Akouphone, was created by Miller Reese Hutchison in 1898"; whether that's the case is not the question here. Twang (talk) 00:30, 22 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

A picture of professor Harvey Fletcher would be good

Either an action photo in the lab,or a portrait-picture would be nice. Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 23:06, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I'd love to get the photo from this article, but the other photos from the U of U special collections appear to be copyright by the Utah State Historical Society. Some of the other photos on the web might be old enough to be in the public domain though? Rwelean (talk) 20:19, 19 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]