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Lee de Forest Born: August 26th, 1873 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Died: June 30th, 1961 in Hollywood, California.

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Lee de Forest was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1873. His minister father moved the family to Alabama to become President of Talledega College, a small school for African Americans, But while de Forest grew up in the deep South, his education was formal and upper class. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School. His 1899 dissertation was titled: "The Reflection of Hertzian Waves at the End of Parallel Wires."

Lee de Forest built wireless telegraph devices for the U.S. Navy Lee also invented Audion, Vacuum tube, Sound motion picture,

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