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Name: Lee De Forest
Birth Date: 1873
Death Date: June 30, 1961
Place of Birth: Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States
Place of Death: Hollywood, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: inventor, businessman, entrepreneur

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Like many inventors, Lee De Forest was a brilliant innovator but a poor businessman; he spent much of his life fighting lawsuits and lost as many fortunes as he made. A prolific inventor, De Forest had more than 300 patents to his credit. He worked in...
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The American inventor Lee De Forest (1873-1961) pioneered in radio, both in developing broadcasting and in inventing the audion. He is considered one of the fathers of radio. Lee De Forest was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in 1873, where his father was...
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Lee de Forest was one of several scientists who contributed to the development of radio . A controversial and litigious man who seemed nearly as much concerned with fame as with science, de Forest is generally credited with the invention of the triode,...


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1873-1961 American Physicist Lee De Forest introduced a third element into the diode vacuum tube designed by John Ambrose Flemming (1849-1945), providing a means by which a small voltage applied to this element could have a large effect on the current...
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Lee De Forest, (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the...


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