Word: audion
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...Forest modifies Fleming's vacuum tube to create Audion valve...
...Forest reworks his Audion valves into powerful amplifiers...
...will probated in Los Angeles, the late electronics trailblazer, Dr. Lee de Forest, bequeathed $1 apiece to his three daughters, and very little more for his only other heir, fourth (and last) wife Marie Mosquini. The "Father of Radio" -whose 1906 invention of the audion tube had also made possible long-distance telephony, talking movies and television -had burned out his fourth fortune and wound up with...
...following a long illness; in Hollywood. In the process of piling up more than 300 patents, the Yale-educated minister's son lost four fortunes, almost came to regret the product of his genius. Wrote he to the National Association of Broadcasters on the 40th anniversary of his audion tube: "You have debased [ my] child . . . You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence . . . a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere...
...Forest. With this inventor's audion radio tube, the babble of formerly isolated voices, for good or evil . . . has been propelled to the farthest corners of the earth...