Chester Williams Rice

Chester Williams Rice (December 16, 1888 – March 8, 1951) was an American electrical engineer[1] who was the joint inventor in 1925 of the moving coil loudspeaker along with Edward W.

[2] Rice was born in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1888 and educated at The Albany Academy and Harvard College, from which he received an S.B.

[1] In 1925, Rice, while working for General Electric, published a paper with Edward W. Kellogg outlining an early moving coil loudspeaker.

The paper also discussed a way of boosting power to amplifiers; this was incorporated in General Electric's Radiola line of radios in 1926.

They had five children, Barbara, Wilbur Currier, Priscilla, Chester Thomson and Helen.