Nathaniel Baldwin, Utah Inventor and Patron of the Fundamentalist Movement BY M E R R I L L
SINGER
M O N G T H E R E S I D E N T S OF T H E
foothill area southeast of Salt Lake City there is a story about a man who while traveling up Mill Creek Canyon one day was dumbstruck by a voice he heard booming clown the canyon walls. T h e man looked around, but he was all alone. Bewildered by the sound, he continued his journey up the canyon until he finally came upon an embarrassed Nathaniel Baldwin testing his new compressed-air voice amplifier. This loudspeaker was the first of a number of Baldwin inventions with sound. By the 1930s his innovative skills had helped U t a h Mr. Singer is a graduate research fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University of Utah.
Screened print of Nathaniel Baldwin from photograph in Deseret News advertisement, December 21, 1929.
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