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"de Forest has said . . . that it would be possible to transmit the
human voice across the Atlantic before many years. Based on these
absurd and deliberately misleading statements, the misguided public
... has been persuaded to purchase stock in his company."
-- U. S. District Attorney, prosecuting inventor Lee De Forest for
fraud, 1913
[De Forest invented some of the basic devices that made wireless radio
broadcasting possible, including the "triode" or "audion" amplifier. He
first predicted the possibility of radio broadcasting in 1902, founded the
Wireless Telegraph Company to make commercial radio a reality.
[Even as he was being charged for fraud, radio started connecting the
country, then the world. As early as 1910, De Forest attempted the first
live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, with Enrico Caruso. Radio
thrived... until its decline and near disappearance in the early 21st
century, when broadcasts from the Met and elsewhere, including the SF
Opera, were no longer available in Northern California...:(]
Janos Gereben/SF
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