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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Lee De Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia encyclopedia article on Lee de Forest discusses his life and his invention of the triode (or audion), which laid the foundation for radio.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Invention of the Week: Lee De Forest

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website provides information on the life and inventions of Lee DeForest, the man who invented the audion tube, which made commercial radio broadcasting practical.
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Audion

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1906, American physicist Lee De Forest invented the Audion (or triode), building on John Fleming's discovery of the diode just a few years before.
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Handout
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Lee De Forest

For Students 9th - 10th
American inventor Lee De Forest was a pioneer of radio and motion pictures. He received more than 300 patents over the course of his lifetime, the most important of which was for a three-electrode vacuum tube, or triode, that he called...