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Clippings and complete periodicals featuring stories about Lee de Forest published between 1956 and 1959, including: a) "Endless Frontiers: The Story of McGraw Hill," Roger Burlingame, 1959 (pp. 280-285) b) Cornell-Dubilier Electric Corporation 45th Anniversary Commeorative Program, 20 April 1955 c) Otarian Listener Hearing Aid advertisement featuring de Forest d) "Ten Years of Recordings" 28 September 1957 e) "Dr. de Forest, 84, now 'shooting for 94'," Palo Alto Times, 26 August 1957 f) "Dr. De Forest to be Heald Consultant," San Francisco Examiner g) "He Lived Adventure in Start of Modern Communications," feature on Harry Athearn h) Christmas Greetings from Askania Regulator Company, featuring notepaper with reproduced de Forest drawings i) "IRE Welcomed: $1,000,000 Collection Featured at Show," with photograph of de Forest and Joseph T. Cataldo of International Rectifier Corp., New York Daily Mirror, 18 March 1957 j) Pacific Electronics Weekly cover, featuring photograph of de Forest at the new Federal Telecommunication Laboratories branch in Palo Alto with Cyril Elwell, Leonard Fuller and Douglas Perham, February 1957 k) Grid magazine, January 1957, with cover story on the "Birth of the First Grid," and a photographs of de Forest's visit to Federal Telegraph Laboratories in Palo Alto l) QST magazine with photograph of de Forest in front of QSL cards received on his 85th birthday m) "Lee de Forest: Father of the Radio Industry," Leonard M. Fanning, Fathers of Industries Series, 1956 n) "Birth of the Electron Tube Amplifier," Radio & Television News, March 1957 o) "Lee de Forest Honored on Golden Annivesary of the 'Audion' Tube," December 1956, includes photograph of Lee and Marie de Forest looking at plaque on 229 Fourth Avenue, New York p) "Dr. Lee de Forest Honored by Pioneers at Brilliant Annual Dinner-Meeting," The Radio Pioneer, 1956. Includes multiple photographs from the event. q) Princeton Tube Collection Radio Engineering Show pamphlet, 18-21 March 1957 r) "Lee de Forest parmi nous," Toute la Radio, November 1956 s) "Air Force Assigned ICBM Development, Eisenhower Congratulates deForest," Electronic Daily, 22 March 1956 t) "An Unusual Disc Jockey Visits S.F." The San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 1957 u) "Lee De Forest finds P. A. growth in electronics 'hard to believe'," Palo Alto Times, 15 December 1956. Includes photographs of de Forest at 913 Emerson Street v) "Dr. de Forest Gets Annual STS Award," Los Angeles Collegian (National Social Science Award)
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Identifier
80A4A788-14E5-478D-91A1-606026623377 2003-34-708
Subject
San Francisco (Calif.) Radio--History (LCSH) Federal Telegraph Company Palo Alto (Calif.)--History (LCSH) Electronics--History (LCSH) Hearing aids Cornell-Dubilier Electric Corp Awards Heald College (San Francisco, Calif.) Federal Telecommunications Laboratory (Palo Alto, Calif.) Radio Pioneers Institute of Radio Engineers International Rectifier (Firm) De Forest, Lee De Forest, Marie Mosquini Fuller, Leonard Franklin Elwell, C. F. (Cyril Frank) Perham, Douglas M Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) Athearn, Harry
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