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The life-long inventor, Lee de Forest invented the three-element vacuum tube used between 1906 and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator of radio waves. Beginning in 1918 he began to develop a light valve, a device for writing and reading sound using light patterns. While he received many patents for his process, he was initially ignored by the film industry. In order to promote and demonstrate his process he made several hundred sound short films, he rented space for their showing; he sold the tickets and did the publicity to gain audiences for his invention. Lee de Forest officially brought sound to film in 1919. __Lee De Forest: King of Radio, Television, and Film__ is about both invention and early film making; de Forest as the scientist and producer, director, and writer of the content. This book tells the story of de Forest’s contribution in changing the history of film through the incorporation of sound. The text includes primary source historical material, U.S. patents and richly-illustrated photos of Lee de Forest’s experiments. Readers will greatly benefit from an understanding of the transition from silent to audio motion pictures, the impact this had on the scie

Who reads Lee de Forest : King of Radio, Television, and Film?

Author

Mike Adams (auth.)

Publisher

Springer New York

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461404170

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Social Science, Memoir

Rating

3.5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14