{"id":18766,"date":"2019-02-26T15:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/?p=18766"},"modified":"2021-07-06T08:24:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T12:24:39","slug":"james-west-among-washington-posts-16-notable-african-american-inventors-and-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/james-west-among-washington-posts-16-notable-african-american-inventors-and-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"James West included in Washington Post&#8217;s 16 notable African American inventors and entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>It&#8217;s Black History Month! Because of this, the Washington Post has been posting old articles about historical African American figures, including a list from 2017 titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/16-notable-african-american-inventors-and-entrepreneurs\/2017\/02\/28\/05267b3c-fca1-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_gallery.html?utm_term=.b114407901ad\">16 notable African American inventors and entrepreneurs<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"fHbtk72jQrbLzq\" class=\"moat-trackable pb-f-theme-normal pb-f-dehydrate-false pb-f-async-false full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-sharebars-top-share-bar\" data-chain-name=\"no-name\" data-feature-name=\"no-name\" data-feature-id=\"sharebars\/top-share-bar\" data-pb-fingerprint=\"0fA4taXsipn\">\n<div id=\"top-sharebar_7630\" class=\"top-sharebar-wrapper vertical-sticky-top-sharebar color-top\" data-pb-canonical-url=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/16-notable-african-american-inventors-and-entrepreneurs\/2017\/02\/28\/05267b3c-fca1-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_gallery.html\" data-pb-prevent-ajax=\"false\" data-collision-selector=\"\">\n<div class=\"social-tools-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/faculty\/james-west\/\">James West<\/a>, a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was named among those the Washington Post listed. West developed the foil electret microphone, a device that is now featured in 90 percent of microphones.<\/p>\n<p>Among those West is recognized with are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/16-notable-african-american-inventors-and-entrepreneurs\/2017\/02\/28\/05267b3c-fca1-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_gallery.html?utm_term=.b114407901ad\">George Washington Carver<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/16-notable-african-american-inventors-and-entrepreneurs\/2017\/02\/28\/05267b3c-fca1-11e6-8ebe-6e0dbe4f2bca_gallery.html?utm_term=.98ee3b8a9f4f\">Percy Julian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Professor West!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18766","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-awards-and-honors","news_categories-department-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>James West included in Washington Post&#039;s 16 notable African American inventors and entrepreneurs - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ece\/news\/james-west-among-washington-posts-16-notable-african-american-inventors-and-entrepreneurs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"James West included in Washington Post&#039;s 16 notable African American inventors and entrepreneurs - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s Black History Month! 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