TLS, 1957 September 24 : Los Angeles, CA, to Major August Jeffers.

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TLS, 1957 September 24 : Los Angeles, CA, to Major August Jeffers.

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De Forest was an inventor and pioneer of wireless telegraphy. Here he reminisces at age 84: "In 1906 I invented the 3 electrode tube which made radio possible ... since that date it has remade our civilization."

1 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Jeffers, August.

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De Forest, Lee, 1873-1961

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Lee De Forest was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on August 26, 1873. He was a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1896 and received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1899. He was an important contributor in the development of wireless telegraphy in the United States. He started multiple radio broadcasting companies and patented 300 inventions in his lifetime. In 1904, he was awarded the gold medal at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. He died on June 30, 1961. F...