ATDTDA (1): De Forest and Kimura (29:32-3)

[Tim Strzechowski]

[...] "young De Forest, a regular wizard with the electricity ... along with a Japanese visitor, Mr. Kimura" [...] (p. 29, lines 32 - 3).

Lee De Forest, (August 26, 1873 - June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 300 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use of electronics.

He was involved in several patent lawsuits and he spent a fortune from his inventions on the legal bills. He had four marriages and several failed companies, he was defrauded by business partners, and he was once indicted for mail fraud, but was later acquitted.

He was a charter member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, one of the two predecessors of the IEEE (the other was the American Institute of Electrical Engineers). [...]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_De_Forest

http://www.leedeforest.org/


Dr. Lee deForest's inventions have led more than one scholar to name him "the father of American radio." [...]

http://www.radiohof.org/pioneer/leedeforest.html

http://www.antiqueradio.com/gonshor_deforest_8-97.html


Shunkichi Kimura

http://www.genealogy.ams.org/html/id.phtml?id=38055

not finding much on Kimura ... anyone?  anyone??


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