In a message dated 4/13/2006 9:11:31 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
I know it's still called the "Edison Effect", but isn't the patent Thom's as well? That I do not know. I do know that Lee De Forest, the developer of the Audion, which was the first "practical" vacuum tube to see widespread use, is considered by most early radio buffs to be the "father" of radio as we know it, perhaps more so than Marconi, because the Audion brought electrically amplified radio transmission, reception, and reproduction so much closer to the masses. Randy
