Papers, 1873-1961.

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Papers, 1873-1961.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78732272

Correspondence, diaries, journals, notebooks detailing scientific work and inventions, documents relating to patents and other legal matters, awards, and scrapbooks.

128,444 items.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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...