Lee De Forest was not interested: he had a vision of what he wanted as a career, and he was very insistent on being a scientist. Lo and behold, his wish was granted as he took up enrolment in the year of 1893 at the college of the Sheffield Scientific School of the Yale University an institution that was known to deliver top class education in science. Prudent and conscientious, he complemented his learning and made a minimal amount of pocket money from tedious unskilled jobs during his college years. Despite the fact that he did not have an illustrious career as an undergraduate, he was still able to gain a PhD in physics during his six years attendance at University. Having successfully gained a PhD he broaden his studies expanding to the fields of electricity and henceforth, took a particular interest in electromagnetic wave transmission. The interest Lee De Forrest took in electromagnetic wave transmission was pioneered by two scientists. The German Heinrich R. Hertz and the Italian Guglielmo Marconi. Lee De Forest assertive exposition on the manifestation of Hertzian Waves from the ends of analogous or comparable wires was perhaps the first doctoral theory in the whole of USA. Which was later given the name: "Radio"! Lee De Forest founded the De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company in 1902, but he unlike his other counterparts Thomas Edison and Emil Berliner, lacked a practicable entrepreneurial flare, as he failed to distribute his ideas to the general communalist as a whole. It was Thomas Edison who was the first person to discover the "Edison Effect," but Edison did not capitalise on his findings. The Lee De Forest transformed "Edison Effect" into what Deforest himself described as the Audion Tube. |
