The scientist Lee Deforest

Lee Deforest

Living place: Council Bluffs

Birthday: 26-8-1873

Global rank: #56405

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Who is The scientist Lee Deforest?
Scientist and engineer who earned 180 patents during his lifetime, including the Audion and the triode vacuum tube, making radio possible. During his long career, he founded more than twenty companies and directed short films.
His improved vacuum tube enabled the first wireless broadcasts, which he performed from his experimental radio station.
 
 

Young / Before famous

At Yale, he shorted the school's electrical grid, causing the entire place to go black and he won a suspension.

Family life info

Seeing his son's talent, his father was enrolled at Mt. Hermon School for Boys, in Massachusetts.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling The scientist Lee Deforest?
A distant relative of mine, Calvert DeForest is a frequent guest on David Letterman's show.

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When was The scientist Lee Deforest born?
Lee Deforest was born in 26-8-1873, death year is , at the age of 151.
Where is The scientist Lee Deforest's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Lee Deforest was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa- United States. is a The scientist, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. Lee Deforest's global rank is 56405 and whose rank is 276 in list of famous The scientist.
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Events in 1873 and 26-8

Birthday Lee Deforest (26-8) in history

  • Day 26-8 year 1847: Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
  • Day 26-8 year 1920: The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote went into effect.
  • Day 26-8 year 1939: The first televised major league baseball game was televised: a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.
  • Day 26-8 year 1974: Aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died.
  • Day 26-8 year 1978: John Paul I became Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He died one month later.
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