Sidney N. Shure
Founder, Shure Incorporated
Major contribution
Shure built the company that commercialized directional Unidyne microphones for public address and live performance.
Sidney N. Shure founded the business in 1925. Its development into a microphone manufacturer provided the organizational setting in which engineer Ben Bauer pursued the single-element directional dynamic microphone.
The company introduced the Unidyne in 1939, offering a practical microphone for communication and public-address work. Shure’s role should be distinguished from Bauer’s engineering authorship: the founder established and guided the manufacturer that brought the design to users.
Key work
- Shure company establishment (1925)
- Model 55 Unidyne introduction (1939)
- Model 55B public-address and recording microphone (1939)
In the chronology
Selected sources
- The Unidyne Story (1939–2014) · Shure Incorporated
- Single-element Unidirectional Microphone – Shure Unidyne, 1939 · Engineering and Technology History Wiki / IEEE