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Edwin Howard Armstrong was born December 18,1890. In his early years he enjoyed working with electrical and mechanical devices. When he was working in the basment of a lab he invented the frequency modulation (FM) radio. He gave several people jobs later as radio broadcasters and in the music production. Several people enjoyed this invention because it was a nice luxury. Armstrong conducted his first large scale test with the FM radio technology on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building from May of 1934 to October 1935. The FM radio had better sound then the AM radio therefore it was preferred. Armstrong married a woman named Marion Macinnis in December of 1922. She later left him after he stabbed her with a fireplace poker. He committed suicide on January 31.1954. He jumped out of his window on the 13th floor of his apartment in New York City In 1917 he was the first recipient of the IRE, it is now called the IEEE Medal of Honor. He recived this for his wartime work on the radio.