Lee De Forest
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...
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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 ...
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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 ha...
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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 ...
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