Lee de Forest King of Radio, Television, and Film /

• Main Author: Adams, Mike (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Performing arts.; Cultural heritage.; History.; Multimedia information systems.; Popular works.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Multimedia Information Systems.; History of Science.; Popular Science, general.; Cultural Heritage.; Performing Arts.

Lee de Forest, Yale doctorate and Oscar winner, gave voice to the radio and the motion picture. Yet by the 1930s, after the radio and the Talkies were regular features of American life, Lee de Forest had seemingly lost everything. Why? Why didn’t he receive the recognition and acclaim he sought his...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Born to Invent
• Chapter 2 The Race for Wireless
• Chapter 3 The Meaning of the Audion
• Chapter 4 California Days
• Chapter 5 Radio’s Arrival
• Chapter 6 Phonofilm, the Promise
• Chapter 7 Phonofilm, the Realization
• Chapter 8 Phonofilm, the Rejection
• Chapter 9 Phonofilm, the Lawyers
• Chapter 10 Lesson and Legacy.