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"This book is not so much an analysis of de Forest's contribution to technology as it is a chronicle of his spiritual quest. Lee de Forest was an important inve
Lee de Forest
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Pages: 562
Authors: Mike Adams
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-17 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

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The life-long inventor, Lee de Forest invented the three-element vacuum tube used between 1906 and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator of radio waves.
Empire of the Air
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Authors: Tom Lewis
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries—Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff—whose imagination and dreams turned
The Telephone and Its Several Inventors
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On March 7, 1876, the U.S. Patent Office issued to a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell what is arguably the most valuable patent ever: entitled "improv
Characters of the Information and Communication Industry
Language: en
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Authors: Richard F. Bellaver
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I have taught a graduate course on the history of the information and communications industry for 20 years. The course shows students how the world has moved fr