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Oct 01, 1901 Wyndmere, North Dakota, United States Died on 21 Mar 1989 (aged 87)
American engineer
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About John Kenneth Hilliard
- John Kenneth Hilliard (October 1901 – March 21, 1989) was an American acoustical and electrical engineer who pioneered a number of important loudspeaker concepts and designs.
- He helped develop the practical use of recording sound for film, and won an Academy Award in 1935.
- He designed movie theater sound systems, and he worked on radar as well as submarine detection equipment during World War II.
- Hilliard collaborated with James B.
- "Jim" Lansing in creating the long-lived Altec Voice of the Theatre speaker system.
- Hilliard researched high-intensity acoustics, vibration, miniaturization and long-line communications for NASA and the Air Force.
- Near the end of his career, he standardized noise-control criteria for home construction in California, a pattern since applied to new homes throughout the U.S.
