Microphones, Morticians and The Turner Company. In 1925, David Turner's father was Cedar Rapids' leading mortician. His beautiful funeral parlor was often filled to overflow capacity with mourners, and it struck David that technology held the answer. He urged his father to install an electronic public address system to carry the minister's words to the farthest corners of the Turner Chapel. Six years later, after demonstrating the system at a mortician's convention, the Turners began producing PA systems in a spare closet of their mortuary. The company as it was in 1952 was described in the the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Turner entered its peak growth period as the citizens band radio craze began in the United States.
The company's extensive line of communications and professional microphones was eclipsed by the demand for low-cost mass-produced handheld microphones to be used on CB sets. The firm was sold again and absorbed into the Telex Corporation, and the Cedar Rapids manufacturing plant closed. The Turner Company would not see 1980.
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