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Lee de Forest holding the DeForest "Responder" used at St. Louis World's Fair

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Title: Lee de Forest holding the DeForest "Responder" used at St. Louis World's Fair
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953/06/09
Contributing Institution: History San Jose Research Library
Collection: History San Jose Online Catalog
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Description: Two copies. On original print, the note reads, "Dr. Lee de Forest, Inventor of the three-electrode (radio) tube. Taken in Los Angeles June 9, 1953 two months before his 80th birthday." The note on the copy reads, "Dr. Lee DeForest holding DeForest 'Responder' used at St. Louis Worlds Fair, 1904. This Responder was located by G. S. Corpe in unclaimed Freight Office in Phoenix, Ariz., where it had been for 40 Yrs." (G.S. Corpe, W6LM)
Type: image
Format: Black & White
Identifier: A5F7113A-1577-4866-9FA7-555331831760
2003-34-801
Subject: Radio--History (LCSH)
Radio--Equipment and supplies and supplies (LCSH)
Radio--Receivers and reception (LCSH)
Radio broadcasting
De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company
American De Forest Wireless Telegraph Co
Audion
World's fairs
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Inventors--California (LCSH)
De Forest, Lee
Corpe, G. S

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