The story
Lee de Forest invented the vacuum tube amplifier here in 1912, enabling long-distance telephone, radio, and eventually television.
Everything that was here
- 1909–1913
Federal Telegraph Company LaboratoryResearch Laboratory
Lee de Forest invented the vacuum tube amplifier here in 1912, enabling long-distance telephone, radio, and eventually television.
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