January 1947 Radio-Craft
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January 1947 Radio-Craft

[Table of Contents]

Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles from Radio-Craft, published 1929 - 1953. All copyrights are hereby acknowledged.

January 1947

Vol. XVIII, No. 4

de Forest - Father of Radio, by Hugo Gernsback	17
How the Audion Was Invented, by Lee de Forest	19
Birth of the Audion, by Frank E. Butler	22
How Audions Were Built, by Gerald F. J. Tyne	27
Three Anecdotes of the Audion's Early Days	31
de Forest and the Navy, by George H. Clark	32
An Early Radiophone	36
First Radio Association: Wireless Association of America	37
First Phone Broadcast, by Frank E. Butler	38
Radio Inventions of Lee de Forest, by Fred Shunaman	41
de Forest the Inventor, by	46
Antenna Principles - Part II	72
Radio Data Sheet Zenith Radio Models 8H032, 8H033, 8H050, 8H052, 8H061	84
Radio Terms Illustrated	90, 133, 140, 143

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