CONFERENCE EQUIPMENT, SOUND SYSTEMS, SOUND-PROOF BOOTHS, PORTABLE SET
CONFERENCE EQUIPMENT
SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION
PORTABLE TRANSLATION SET
World War I was a turning point for Interpretation as a profession. In 1927, Americans Edward Filéne, Gordon Finlay and Thomas Watson with IBM introduced wired microphones, giving way to simultaneous interpretation, which has since then taken the place of consecutive interpretation and making it more suitable for business meetings and high level talks. The milestone was the Nuremberg Trials. Lieutenant Leon Dorstet led a team made up of twelve interpreters (German, English, French and Russian). The success of simultaneous interpretation was overwhelming despite being such a novel technique. Dorstet created the first team of interpreters for the United Nations Organization.