Word: audion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DeForest Audion Tube...
...Hollywood, Radioldster Lee De Forest, inventor 31 years ago of the audion radio tube which made long-range broadcasting possible, celebrated his 65th birthday by telling reporters how little he thinks of broadcasting, 1938 style: "I seldom tune in. . . . The programs, all swing and croon, are not only poor, but the interruptions for commercial announcements are maddening. . . . Isn't it sickening? It isn't at all as I imagined it would...
...salvage $4,000,000 in gold from the hulk of an old British frigate at the bottom of New York's East River; Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, RCA-Victor television ace; William David Coolidge, General Electric's No. 1 x-ray researcher; Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion radio tube; and Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite...
...press received GE's metal tube cordially, spoke of the first "radical change" since Lee de Forest bobbed up with the three-element audion tube in 1907. Far from cordial was Philco Radio & Television Corp., which has small esteem for metal tubes and no stomach whatever for a possible public swing in that direction. Philco bought a full page in the New York Times ($4,500) to launch a counterblast. Recalling an ill-starred experiment with metal tubes in Britain, Philco warned that a "pell mell rush" into metal might also have disastrous consequences here. Points...