Lee Deforest accomplishments and failures towards communicat

DeForest, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1873, grew up to become an ambitious young man. He was known “as a boy that didn't want to become a Congregational minister like his father,” he had different plans(Longden,2003). He graduated from Yale University in 1896 with a PhD and completed a thesis on radio waves. Lee started inventing things such as a puzzle game and then from there he improved the type bar on his typewriter. In 1906, DeForest invented a three-element electron tube, and called it the audion tube. Dissimilar from the Diode tube developed by British engineer John Ambrose Fleming, DeForest’s three segmented audion tube could produce signals which moved to and fro and made it possible to transmit sound waves over wireless communication systems. He believed “these tubes made it possible to amplify radio signals and to send them over long dist

ances”(DeForest;Olga,1999). DeForest had a tendency to stumble upon significant finds and not understand the logic behind them. He would create things and not see their full worth. The Audion tube is a great example of one of those inventions in which DeForest did not fully understand it’s potential. He happened to stumble upon the audion tube while working to improve wireless telegraph systems while toying and modifying the creations of other inventors, mainly Edison’s. The audion tube consisted of a filament and a plate in a glass tube containing some gas. He placed a rugged plate between the filament and the other plate. This enabled the current through the tube to have more force. This tube was able to produce small and faint telegraph and radio signals. Some years later, other scientists worked on improving the audion tube and came to a more successive conclusion compared to DeForest. They decided that the Triode would work much better in a sealed system. They were right and received credit for it. Then in 1912 Lee created a feedback circuit system which could transmit in, greater strength, output waves of a radio transmitter. Once again, an excellent invention but he didn’t see its prospects. However, Lee went for a patent in 1915 and was shocked at what he found out when he got to the patent shop. He had been told that a man by the name of E. Howard Armstrong had already put a patent in for it. Lee tried to re-claim his fame and glory by suing Armstrong. He won but the case lasted approximately twenty years and by the time the case was settled, radio waves weren’t a new invention anymore and radio stations have always wrongfully recognized Armstrong with the discovery of the invention. Another one of DeForest’s major contributions to society was his making of sound films. He was working with electricity with the intensions of improving sound recording. He was able to conv

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