Jamie Hardt @jpaulh.bsky.social

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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Jamie Hardt @jpaulh.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 05:10 UTC

(For information on his sex life I refer you to Scott Eyman's "The Speed Of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution 1926-1930" and some specific anecdotes memorialized there.)

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