Lee Deforest accomplishments and failures towards communicat

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 converge sound and film through further use of his audion tube, which led to the end of the "motion picture silent era". He then tried to patent his creation in 1921 and was successful three years later. Once he received his patent he tried to gain the interest in the movie industry but was denied. Once again he suffered. He was not favorable of the film industry and believed that "theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility."(Lee DeForest,1926). Meaning that television was an expensive taste. One in which DeForest didn't have.
             These deprivations of the credit for his own work pretty much summed up his life. The common citizen does not sit down and give the time of day to actually think about who made the radio possible or who created the signal which makes phone conversations over long distance possible.