Lee DeForest, by most accounts ... publicly embarrassed by another inventor for not understanding how his own invention, the audion, worked. You can pretty much imagine him as the nerdy, bow ...

Today is Friday, Jan. 13, the 13th day of 2006 with 352 to follow. Lee De Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest ...