Gadgets

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.


June 1, 2010
Science

I Accidentally Invented Electronics In 1906

Our modern media spring from a common source, an invention that is rarely mentioned today but that had as decisive a role in shaping society as the internal combustion engine or the incandescent lightbulb. The invention was called the Audion.