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Article: De Forest, Lee
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De Forest, Lee
(
b
. Council Bluffs, Iowa, 26 August 1873;
d
. Hollywood, California, 30 June 1961)
electronics
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Lee de Forest grew up in Alabama, where his father, Henry Swift De Forest, a Congregational minister of Huguenot stock, was president (1879
–
1896) of the Negro Talladega College. His mother was Anna Margaret Robbins, the daughter of a Congregational minister.
After preparation at the Mt. Hermon School in Massachusetts, de Forest entered the three-year mechanical engineering course of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University. He graduated in 1896 and returned for graduate work under such luminaries as Josiah Willa d Gibbs and Henry Bumstead. De Forest, enlisted in ...