Word: audion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Forest, who sometimes wonders why he ever invented radio's audion tube, made a birthday wish: that the FCC enforce its ban on "those mediocre giveaway programs" and, while going about it, slap one on soap operas...
...Forest, 73, who fathered modern radio with his 1907 invention of the audion tube, wrote a 40th anniversary letter to the National Association of Broadcasters...