Inventor Name
De Forest, Lee
Repository
Yale University
Manuscripts and Archives
Sterling Memorial Library
PO Box 208240
128 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
203-432-1735
http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/
Physical Description
1 linear ft.
Summary
Lee de Forest was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on August 26, 1873. He was a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1896 and received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1899. He was an important contributor in the development of wireless telegraphy in the United States. He started multiple radio broadcasting companies and patented 300 inventions in his lifetime. In 1904, he was awarded the gold medal at the World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. He died on June 30, 1961. Largely writings of Lee De Forest including typescripts of his diary, of his published autobiography, and of an article on turbines. The small amount of his correspondence includes a series of letters to Jessica Wallace Millar.
Finding Aid
http://mssa.library.yale.edu/findaids/stream.php?xmlfile=mssa.ms.1210.xml
