Armstrong Jeanne Hammond Niece she is said that they don t credit him enough She always thought her uncle invented radio Frank Gunther Engineer he believes when history is written Armstrong should be remembered as the famous inventor of radio Robert Morris Engineer He was the best engineer I ever knew He had the patience perseverance knowledge intuition that made things turn out the way he wanted them Sarnof Sarnof claimed he was the only inventor at work during hours Newspapers hailed him as the boy wonder of radio The titanic disaster brought him to the front of radio and later incidentally me he said When he was a very young man he saw wireless communication as communication from one point to many points That was the origin of radio of mass broadcasting At just 21 he was given offices to produce technologies of many sorts He thought he could bring music to people s homes The receiver could be formed in the simple form of radio box It was sold for 75 and 100 000 radio boxes could be sold in a year His boss didn t like the idea but he was not discouraged David Sarnof was ahead of his time but barely De Forest was broadcasting every evening Armstrong was fresh out of college yet claimed to understand his theory more than de Forest did and he had accomplished more with it in 2 years than de Forest did in 8 years Gertrude Tyne Engineer De forest really tried on these battles but they were too vicious
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