Au contraire Randy! Fleming's valve came before De Forest's, and was infact an Edison Effect tube adapted for radio work. De Forest updated Fleming and was the self proclaimed father of radio. Marconii invented radio as much as Edison invented the Phonograph. De Forest was a bitter man who despised Marconi. In the archives of the Marconi Company is a letter from De Forest from 1901 in which he him begs for a job saying how he much he wants to work for him. When no job was given he proceeded to infringe every Marconi patent he could, got involved with crooked businessmen and finally lost each and every court case to Marconi. The result was the Marconi Co. took over all of the De Forest Co. properties in the US. So, you could say De Forest was a bit bitter.
----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 9:04 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Best sounding Phonograph > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.1/310 - Release Date: 4/12/2006 > >
