Lee de Forest: King of Radio, Television, and Film Paperback - 2011 - 2012th Edition
by Mike Adams
From the rear cover
Lee de Forest, Yale doctorate and Oscar winner, gave voice to the radio and the motion picture. Yet by the 1930s, after the radio and the Talkies were regular features of American life, Lee de Forest had seemingly lost everything. Why? Why didn't he receive the recognition and acclaim he sought his entire life until years later in 1959, when he was awarded an Oscar?
A lifelong innovator, Lee de Forest invented the three-element vacuum tube which he developed between 1906 and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator of radio waves. As early as 1907, he was broadcasting music programming. In 1918, he began to develop a system for recording and playing back sound by using light patterns on motion picture film. In order to promote and demonstrate his process he made hundreds of short sound films, found theatres for their showing, and issued publicity to gain audiences for his invention. While he received many patents for this technology, he was ignored by the film industry.
Lee de Forest, King of Radio, Television, and Film is about the process of invention--how inventors really get ideas and how every inventor learns that they must know the work of those who came before, and why the myth of the lone inventor and the "Aha! moment" is largely a fiction.
Through his inventions, Lee de Forest made possible the mass entertainment media we enjoy today. This is his story.
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- Title Lee de Forest: King of Radio, Television, and Film
- Author Mike Adams
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 2012th
- Edition 2012
- Pages 553
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Copernicus Books
- Date 2011-10-15
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781461404170 / 1461404177
- Weight 1.74 lbs (0.79 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 1.16 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.95 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - United States - History, Inventors - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011937446
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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