Guillermo Marconi's Radio Controversy

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1. Usually, when people think about the inventor and founder radio, people tend to say it was Guillermo Marconi. However, after watching this documentary, I believe the inventor and founder of radio has to be the combination of the three men profiled in this documentary; Lee De Forest, Edward Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. Lee De Forest is also sometimes considered the Father of Radio, and even the Grandfather of Television, however, there was always a lot of controversy over his work. Under multiple circumstances, his inventions and discoverers were previously discovered by other inventors earlier in time, leading to multiple lawsuits. Even though there was a lot of controversy over his ideas, he did however come up with one of the

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