stackyFACTSHistory loves a lone genius, but Lee de Forest was mostly just a fantastic plagiarist with a massive ego.
History loves a lone genius, but Lee de Forest was mostly just a fantastic plagiarist with a massive ego. Though he proudly claimed the title 'Father of Radio' and commercialized sound-on-film technology, he spent half his life defending patents he swiped from actual engineers. He brought synchronized sound to movies years before Hollywood adopted it, but the industry despised him so much they aggressively ignored his pitch.
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