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Lee De Forest
Title: Lee De Forest
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Lee De Forest
Lee De Forest
Lee De Forest was born Aug. 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of the nearly bankrupt Talladega College for Negroes. Excluded by citizens of the white community who resented his father's efforts to educate blacks, Lee and his brother and sister made friends from among the black children of the town and spent a …showed first 75 words of 939 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 939 total…passed away on June 30, 1961 in Hollywood, CA. De Forest wrote an autobiography entitled Father of Radio, but did not get that recognition from the rest of the world. He is remembered as one contributor to an industry that was, truth, the work of many people. (Kraeuter, 79).
Kraeuter, David W. (1992). Radio and Television Pioneers.
New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries. (1999) [Online].
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/index.html
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