Up late at night with your essay due tomorrow morning and you are out of ideas to write about? Don't worry, EssayZoom is here!
We have a database of over 40,000 essays that are available immediately for you to search and print. Get enough examples and ideas
from tens of thousands of other writers to make your own term paper stand out above the rest of the class. Join now
for instant access to the essays
Here is a short summary of the essay
|
Lee De Forest
Beginning of Essay
was born Aug. 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of the nearly bankrupt Talladega College for Negroes. Excluded by citizens of the white comm .... Middle of Essay
.... in the clergy, but Lee wanted to go to school for science and, in 1893, enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, one of the few institutions in the United States then offering a first-class scientific education. (Kraeuter, 74). De Forest went on to earn the Ph.D. in physics in 1899, with the help of scholarships, and money his parents made by working odd jobs. By this time he had become interested in electricity, particularly the study of electromagnetic wave propagation, then being pioneered chiefly by the German Heinrich Rudolf Hertz and the Italian Guglielmo Marconi. De Forest's doctoral dissertation on the "Reflection o ....
| Membership Type |
Price |
Instant Access |
| 30 days (recurring) |
$19.95 |
| 90 days (recurring) |
$39.95 |
| 180 days (non-recurring) |
$69.95 |
|
|
|
Words: 894 - Pages: 4
|
