print email comment close The Complete Lee de Forest URL: http://www.leedeforest.org/ Description: Background about Lee de Forest (1873-1961), "an inventor who changed the world with electronics. His two major inventions were the vacuum tube and sound for motion pictures." Features an illustrated biography featuring a description of his audion (a three element vacuum tube), how he received an honorary Oscar in 1959, and litigation related to his work. From the chair of the Department of Television, Radio, Film and Theatre at San Jose State University. Author: Adams, Mike Extra Keywords theater LII Database Information: Record 24190 created by Maria Brandt on 07/24/2007 Last modification on 08/02/2007 Published: 08/02/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24190