Lee de Forest: King of Radio, Television, and Film
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (915 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1461404177 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 553 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"story of a fabled inventor" according to Gunther Purdue. Adams has produced a substantial and engrossing account of one of America's most intriguing and controversial inventors. The volume is impressive in its thoroughness and insights. While a well-written biography, it is also a solid source of technological information about two of the 20th century's most significant creations--radio and film. It has been a lo. "Great history of the inventor" according to Bonnie Bamburg. Very well researched and written. Great history of the inventor.. If you were God and wanted to increase missionary work in the 19th Century you would - Nevada Bob If you were God and wanted to increase missionary work in the 19th Century you would teach the son of Huguenot missionaries how to school illiterates, at Taladega. Then send him to learn about Hertzian waves at Yale Divinity School, then to Armour Institute, Chicago Illinois to learn that God inspires technology, then develop the vacuum triode, then create
Currently he is a professor of radio, television, and film at San Jose State University, where he has been a department chair and an associate dean. Mike Adams has been a radio personality and a film maker. As a researcher and writer of broadcast and early technology history, he created two award-winning d
The text includes primary source historical material, U.S. Lee de Forest officially brought sound to film in 1919. While he received many patents for his process, he was initially ignored by the film industry. In order to promote and demonstrate his process he made several hundred sound short films, he rented space for their showing; he sold the tickets and did the publicity to gain audiences for his invention. This book tells the story of de Forest’s contribution in changing the history of film through the incorporation of sound. Lee De Forest: King of Radio, Television, and Film is about both invention and early film making; de Forest as the scientist and producer, director, and writer of the content. patents and richly-illustrated photos of Lee de Forest’s experiments. The life-long inventor, Lee de Forest invented the three-element vacuum tube used between 1906 and 1916 as a detector, amplifier, and oscillator of radio waves. Beginning in 1918 he began to develop a light valve, a device for writing and reading sound using light pa
Adams, a longtime San Jose State University faculty member and historian, has plumbed the de Forest archive for this study which brings to light many new details of a complex and sometimes maddening man. … the reader gets ‘basic training’ in motion-picture history and production theory, a helpful addition. From the reviews:“‘Lee de Forest: King of Radio, Television and Film’ – Author Mike Adams, a media professor at San Jose State University, knows radio and film: he brings those worlds together in his discussion of de Forest, including the inventor’s role in the film industry. … I certainly recommend this thought-provoking book to a