How One Man Accidentally Invented Electronics In 1906

When Lee de Forest accidentally created the first electronic audio amplifier – the Audion – he “inaugurated the age of electronics”. You can learn about it in this excerpt from Nicholas Carr’s book What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. [Gizmodo]

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