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Noun: Father of Radio
  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)
    - De Forest, Lee De Forest

Type of: artificer, discoverer, electrical engineer, inventor

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