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Lee De Forest
Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA
Lee de Forest, (born August 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.—died June 30, 1961, Hollywood, California), American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live…
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Lee de Forest, (born August 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.—died June 30, 1961, Hollywood, California), American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. Although de Forest was bitter over the financial exploitation of his inventions by others, he was widely honoured as the “father of radio” and the “grandfather of television.” He was supported strongly but unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize for Physics.
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1991
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Movie Self - Objects to Quality of Radio Programming (archive footage)
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1927
The Lard Song
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1926
Dick Henderson
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1926
My Old Kentucky Home
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1926
Billy Merson Singing 'Desdemonia'
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1926
Sweet Adeline
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1924
President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds
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1923
Eubie Blake Plays His Fantasy on Swanee River
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1923
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs
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1923
Ben Bernie and All the Lads
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1923
Weber and Fields Pool Hall
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1923
A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor
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1923
From Far Seville
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1923
Harlequin Serenade
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1923
Stringed Harmony
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1923
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers from Chauve Souris
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1923
What the Phonofilm Means
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1923
A Study in Contrasts
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1922
Casey at the Bat
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