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Situated on a barren and lonely headland of the coast of Galway, three miles from the town of Clifden, is the Irish station of the Marconi transatlantic wireless telegraph system. No less barren ...

After receiving a PhD from Yale in 1896 with a dissertation on radio waves, he developed an improved wireless telegraph receiver. By 1902, he had founded the De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company ...

Dr. Lee de Forest, a distinguished electrical engineer and the foremost American contrib-utor to the development of wireless telegraphy and telephony is at the head, as president and secretary of ...

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