Word: deforest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...telephone and telegraph wires, thus enabling it to control by tolls any radio inventions requiring the use of long-distance wires as connecting links, such as the multi-plex telephone and telegraph carrier systems. Also in 1917, before the radio fad had developed, it purchased from Lee DeForest, leading radio inventor, the patent rights of his audion vacuum tube, which is basic to all amplifying systems...
...Haven, Conn., January 22, Joseph Swan Platt won the DeForest Senior Speaking Prize here tonight on the subject "The Stranger Within Our Gates". President Angell, who was head judge, awarded other Townsend premiums to the other five speakers...
...this is the case of Luis Angel Firpo from Argentina. Firpo recently discharged his excellent American trainer Jimmy DeForest, presumably because the latter's salary cut into the Argentinian's profits. In DeForest's stead Firpo engaged Senor Horatio Lavalle of Argentina, who serves without pay. The press remarked that Firpo was " hard to beat at figures." Firpo has fought a number of low caliber performers, thereby gaining certain gate receipts. The press remarked that Firpo was " fond of his purse" and dubbed him " Business-Man Firpo." This criticism is evidently aimed at the young Argentinian...
...interest of so many young men and the growing interest of older men, led some of the amateurs to embark in the business of making and selling wireless apparatus. The ordinary things were all homemade. In fact, it was impossible to buy some transmitting apparatus at all. Mr. Lee DeForest then brought out what he was pleased to term the "Audion" detector. It was a little incandescent lamp, with one or two fixings on it, and it was intended to take the place of the crystal of galena ore, or the bit of silicon. But it was found...