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Lee De Forest

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Directed movies: 7Directed series: 0All crew credits: 10

TMDB ID: 1158312

IMDb ID: nm0208418

Known for: Directing

Born: August 26, 1873

Died: June 30, 1961

Age: 87

Place of birth: Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1922 - 1991

Years active: 70

Wikidata: Q354863

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Biography

Lee de Forest, (born August 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.—died June 30, 1961, Hollywood, California), American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. Although de Forest was bitter over the financial exploitation of his inventions by others, he was widely honoured as the “father of radio” and the “grandfather of television.” He was supported strongly but unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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