Hermon Hosmer Scott

Who was Hermon Hosmer Scott?

Hermon Hosmer Scott was a pioneer in the Hi-Fi industry and founder of H.H. Scott, Inc., in Somerville, Massachusetts. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Scott later earned his doctorate from Lowell Institute. In the early 1960s, Mr. Scott served as a special lecturer at the Tuck School of Business, at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Mr. Scott invented the RC oscillator, the selectively tuned RC circuit, various RC filters and the modern sweep circuit. He is perhaps best known for inventing the Dynaural Noise Suppressor, and held more than 100 patents for original research in the field of electronics.

Early in his career, Mr. Scott worked on sound motion pictures and high-quality broadcast systems from 1929 to 1931 at Bell Telephone Laboratories, in New York, NY. Mr. Scott worked for the General Radio Company, in Cambridge, MA from 1931 to 1946, serving first as Sales Engineer/Development Engineer and later as Executive Engineer in charge of Audio, Acoustic, Broadcast and related developments.

The Technology Instrument Corporation, of Waltham, MA was co-founded by Mr. Scott and Lucius E.