Arthur C. Keller (August 18, 1901 – August 25, 1983) was a pioneer of high-fidelity and stereophonic recording techniques. He attended

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and

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. He joined the engineering department of Western Electric in 1917, and became an employee of

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in 1925. Keller's invention of a "moving-coil" playback stylus made possible the first hi-fi records. In 1931-32 Keller made the first known stereophonic and high-fidelity recordings of orchestral music. On April 19, 1938 Keller was issue
US patent number 2,114,471
for his idea of recording the two channels of a stereo recording in one record groove each at 45 degrees from vertical. Keller led the design team at

which developed the first modern

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tools. Keller was awarded the Gold Medal from the

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in 1981 for outstanding developments in stereophonic disk recording. He was a

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of the

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and the

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, and a member of the

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and the Yale Engineering Association. In August 1928, Keller married Margaret D. McHale (1906?–1989?). Their daughter Margaret Gwendolyn Keller was born in 1936. He died on August 25, 1983, in

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; he was eighty-two. Upon his death he was survived by his widow, his daughter, and two granddaughters.

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