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Jamie Hardt@jpaulh.bsky.social |
Lee de Forest, the inventor of the triode and film sound recording, didn't actually know how his tubes worked, but the moment he had a functional prototype he immediately founded a production company to make sound films and (at the age of 50) started dating starlets.
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Jamie Hardt
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De Forest spent years trying to perfect his triode design, the Audion tube, but he didn't accept thermionic discharge and thought his tubes needed to have a gas component to work properly, he was a true Edison in that he didn't know any theory but loved to experiment and self-promote.
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