Papers.

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Papers.

Manuscripts, correspondence, pictures, clippings, chiefly concerned with the early days of radio and television. Correspondents include Guglielmo Marconi, Lee De Forest, Sir John Ambrose Fleming, and others.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8271611

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Dunlap, Orrin E. (Orrin Elmer), 1896-1970

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Dunlap (1896-1970). First radio editor of The New York Times, Vice-President in charge of advertising and publicity of Radio Corporation of America. From the description of Orrin Elmer Dunlap Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154303016 From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81865275 ...

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...