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    Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor and a fundamentally important early pioneer in electronics. He invented the first...
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    posthumously advanced to ASCE Fellow status. In 1908, she married the inventor Lee de Forest, and helped to manage some of the companies he had founded to promote...
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    the great-nephew of inventor Lee de Forest. DeForest grew up in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He was born to Calvert Martin DeForest, M.D., a physician who died...
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    Irish ancestry. Kelley was named after pioneering electronics engineer Lee de Forest. He later named his Star Trek character's father "David" after his own...
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    Audion (redirect from De Forest tube)
    or amplifying vacuum tube invented by American electrical engineer Lee de Forest as a diode in 1906. Improved, it was patented as the first triode in...
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  • College Radio Station)". libguides.union.edu. De Lee Forest. Father of Radio: The Autobiography of Lee de Forest (1950). Gleason L. Archer Personal Papers...
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    included Ernst Ruhmer, Quirino Majorana, Charles "Doc" Herrold, and Lee de Forest. Advances in vacuum tube technology (called "valves" in British usage)...
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    did this by making major improvements to the vacuum tube design of Lee de Forest, increasing the amplification capacity substantially. In February–March...
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    later. Lee De Forest had an interest in wireless telegraphy and he invented the Audion in 1906. He was president and secretary of the De Forest Radio Telephone...
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  • Herman Adolf DeVry (November 26, 1876 – March 23, 1941) was an American inventor, aviator, and colleague of Lee de Forest. DeVry is credited with creating...
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    heated filament or cathode, a grid, and a plate (anode). Developed from Lee De Forest's 1906 Audion, a partial vacuum tube that added a grid electrode to the...
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  • (1874–1944), Austrian actor Lee De Forest (1873–1961), American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit Léonard Forest (born 1928), Acadian filmmaker...
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    25, 2019. Retrieved January 25, 2024. "Lee de Forest". Britannica. Retrieved January 25, 2024. "Lee de Forest". Hollywood Walk of Fame. October 25, 2019...
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    Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored...
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    Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS RDI FRSA DFBCS FREng (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the...
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  • the De Forest System" by Herbert T. Wade, The American Monthly Review of Reviews, June 1907, pp. 681–685. Father of Radio (autobiography) by Lee de Forest...
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    Meissner around 1912, based on the Audion (triode) vacuum tube invented by Lee De Forest in 1906. Vacuum tube transmitters were inexpensive and produced continuous...
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    which could amplify was the triode vacuum tube, invented in 1906 by Lee De Forest, which led to the first amplifiers around 1912. Today most amplifiers...
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    is surrounded in turn by the anode. The control grid was invented by Lee De Forest, who in 1906 added a grid to the Fleming valve (thermionic diode) to...
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    Valdemar Poulsen, Ernst Ruhmer, Quirino Majorana, Charles Herrold, and Lee de Forest, were hampered by the lack of a technology for amplification. The first...
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  • sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s. In 1919 and 1920, de Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed...
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    Cavity magnetron (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Audion by Lee de Forest in 1906. Albert Hull of General Electric Research Laboratory, USA, began development of magnetrons to avoid de Forest's patents...
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    Meucci and Alexander Graham Bell, inventors of radio Edwin Armstrong and Lee de Forest, as well as inventors of television like Vladimir K. Zworykin, John...
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  • DeForest (and variant spellings) can be used as a surname or given name. DeForest is a name of French origin, and it means "from the forest". The name...
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    with the invention of the diode by Ambrose Fleming and the triode by Lee De Forest in the early 1900s, which made the detection of small electrical voltages...
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    University. Retrieved 24 June 2010. Father of Radio: The Autobiography of Lee de Forest, 1950, page 351. Irving Settel, A Pictorial History of Radio, p. 58...
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    Popov in Russia, Eugène Ducretet in France, Reginald Fessenden and Lee de Forest in America, and Karl Ferdinand Braun, Adolf Slaby, and Georg von Arco...
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    Daughter". In 1966, Sutherland appeared in the BBC TV play Lee Oswald-Assassin, playing a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Givens (even though Givens himself...
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    John Mills and actress Mary Hayley Bell. She was 12 when she was cast by J. Lee Thompson, who was initially looking for a boy to play the lead role in Tiger...
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  • directed by David Ossman. The source of the title is from a quote by Lee de Forest. Ken Burns' documentary first aired on PBS on January 29, 1992, narrated...
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