History of Radio: How Lee De Forest, a Con Artist, Created Radio

Who created radio? Well, Lee de Forest would argue that he did, and he had a point: he created the idea of broadcast radio, some of the first broadcasts, and the vacuum tube! However, it all had to do with his willingness to take other's ideas. This is a crazy story.

The music is by the fabulous Kim Nalley

The video of a historian talking about de Forest and the clip from "This is Your Life" both come the (excellent) PBS documentary "The Empire of the Air" which can be seen at:
https://youtu.be/uhX1Hqr8sjo

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