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Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 27 January 1928, Page 5

To hundreds of thousands of listene:'s the name ‘‘loudspeaker’’ is so familiar that it arouses little interest. Yet, when a new instrument is made a name must be found for it. The late Alfred Graham, inventor of the prototype of the loudspeaker, first called it the "Loudspeaking Ielephone,"’ and dater, in 1698, changed to ‘‘Loud Talking Ap-. fPatatus."? In 1894, Mr. Graham made the acquaintance of Professor McKenrick, of Glasgow University, who became associated with him in several subsequent experiments.. Professor McKendrick, in his lectures, invariably referred to the instruments designed by Mr. Graham (who, by the way, originated the firm which produces the Amplion Loudspeaker) as ‘Electrical’ or ‘'Telephonic" Loudspeakers, and thus to a Scotsman belongs the credit for coining the almost universally used expression "loudspeaker," though in America the term "table talker’ is. sometimes used.