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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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    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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    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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    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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  • (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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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