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Lee de Forest was born in 1873 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, the son of Anna Margaret (née Robbins) and Henry Swift DeForest. [1] [2] He was a direct descendant of Jessé de Forest, the leader of a group of Walloon Huguenots who fled Europe in the 17th century due to religious persecution.
Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s. In 1919 and 1920, de Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patents on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines. These parallel lines photographically ...
The film focused primarily [5] on the three pioneers [6] of radio in America: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. [7] The program interspersed audio and musical highlights of "old time" radio with the stories, achievements, failures, scams and bitter feuds between each of the main protagonists. [8]
Lee de Forest broadcasting Columbia phonograph records on New York station 2XG in 1916. In 1892, Emile Berliner began commercial production of his gramophone records, the first disc records to be offered to the public. The earliest broadcasts of recorded music were made by radio engineers and experimenters.
Lee De Forest * 1873 Audion amplifier tube [24] 1977 Vladimir K. Zworykin * 1888 Cathode-ray tube [25] 1978 Carl Djerassi: 1923 Oral contraceptives [26] 1978 Leo Baekeland: 1863 Bakelite [27] 1978 Louis Pasteur: 1822 Pasteurization [28] 1978 Luis Walter Alvarez: 1911 Radar, liquid hydrogen bubble chamber [29] 1979 Charles J. Plank: 1915 ...
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Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999) was an American actor, screenwriter, poet, and singer. He was known for his roles in film and television Westerns and achieved international fame as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek (1966–1991).
Contributions; Talk; Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Plot. 2 Cast. 3 Songs. ... On April 15, 1923, Lee De Forest introduced the sound-on-film system Phonofilm, ...