[BC] Lee de Forest

[David Kaye]

--- On Mon, 6/25/12, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net 

> In 1964 I met a man who had worked for De Forest.  He
> told me, "Lee was a dreamer.  He would come up with all
> these crazy ideas and leave it to us engineers to figure out
> how to make them work."  So, it appears that de Forest
> took the credit for the work done by a lot of other people.

In short, Lee De Forest was the Steve Jobs of his day.