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LEE DE FOREST
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• LEE DE FOREST (noun)
The noun LEE DE FOREST has 1 sense:
1. United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961)
Familiarity information: LEE DE FOREST used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
De Forest; Father of Radio; Lee De Forest
Instance hypernyms:
electrical engineer (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
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