Lee de Forest

The rest of his life mired into the patent disputes that hung like a loathsome cloud over early radio.

A year later, Lee DeForest had appropriated his key invention for transmitting AM.

Edwin Armstrong modified his theory to create practical FM.

The resulting patent miasma was still there when Fessenden died at 66.

I didn't know this name, but I highlighted who he was.

Lee DeForest, inventor and pioneer of radio.

Wow, interesting.

I hope

In 1920, KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh began broadcasting, helping usher in the age of commercial radio.

Inventors like Yelmo Marconi and Lee DeForest helped lay the groundwork for wireless communication.

But an engineer working for Westinghouse Electric had been broadcasting music from his garage as far back as 1916.

Radio work! During KDKA's first commercial broadcast, the station aired the returns of the Harding Cox presidential election.

Process for making artificial stone, invented by Michael Timofeev, Ukrainian.

Pioneer in radio work and sound motion pictures was Lee DeForest, French-English.

TRANSPORTATION First steamboat built and taken down Ohio and Mississippi by Nicholas Roosevelt, Netherlander.

First elevated railroad in New York City was built by José Francisco de Navarro, a Spaniard, in 1878.

Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of Dead Electrical Dudes.

This edition's stiff is Lee DeForest.

And we will stop by and visit with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and much more.

That's all straight ahead as North America's premier amateur radio and technology news magazine and bulletin service, This Week in Amateur Radio, takes to the air right now.

Welcome to the next chapter in the series from the mind of Philip Nedlinger called Dead Electrical Dudes, in which he takes an offbeat humorous look at the movers and shakers that help kindle our amateur radio hobby, as well as other radio-related stuff.

Our thanks go out to Philip for allowing us to use his materials.

This chapter's stiff, Dr. Lee DeForest, entered mortal coil 26 August 1873, assumed room temperature 30 June 1961.

The EHAM presentation shows a picture of Dr. DeForest with the caption, Father of Radio, Grandfather of Television.

Our own amateur radio historian, Will Rogers, K5WLR, returns with another edition of Dead Electrical Dudes.

This edition's stiff is Lee DeForest.

And we will stop by and visit with Bill Salyers, AJ8B in the DX Corner, with all the latest news on DXpeditions, DX, upcoming contests, and much more.

That's all straight ahead as North America's premier amateur radio and technology news magazine and bulletin service, This Week in Amateur Radio, takes to the air right now.

Welcome to the next chapter in the series from the mind of Philip Nedlinger called Dead Electrical Dudes, in which he takes an offbeat humorous look at the movers and shakers that help kindle our amateur radio hobby, as well as other radio-related stuff.

Our thanks go out to Philip for allowing us to use his materials.

This chapter's stiff, Dr. Lee DeForest, entered Mortal Coil 26 August 1873, assumed room temperature 30 June 1961.

The EHAM presentation shows a picture of Dr. DeForest with the caption, "'Father of Radio, Grandfather of Television.'" In the picture, Dr. DeForest is holding a strange electronic apparatus with this quote.

So it's, what's really interesting, I think, about why Mark is highlighting this film in particular is that there were constantly experiments.

The DeForest, Forest Phonofilm Company were making lots and lots of films, and they weren't always taking with the audience in the same way.

A few years before this film was made, one of the big American fan magazines said about the Phonofilm technology, they said, you know, "De Forest tells us that, De Forest tells us that talking pictures have been perfected, and so is Castor Oil." There was a sense that people knew that you could, you could make a talkie, but they didn't like it.

So what's wonderful about thinking about Till the Bells Ring is that when it played in Edinburgh, people had this very warm feeling towards it.