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Noun: Lee De Forest
  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, Father of Radio

Type of: artificer, discoverer, electrical engineer, inventor

Encyclopedia: Lee De Forest

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