Edwin ArmstrongBy

Benson Le

Where he was born

• He was born in December 18, 1890 in New York city

• He was invited to the U.S. Army Signal Corps with an rank of captain

Family

Armstrong married Sarnoff's secretary, Marion McInnis

He gave Marion the world's first portable radio as a wedding gift

Armstrong bought a Hispano-Suiza motor car before the wedding, which they drove to Palm Beach, Florida for their

honeymoon

Legacy

• Armstrong invented a large part of the technology of modern radio. A modern biographer has written

• It took decades following Armstrong's death for FM broadcasting to meet and surpass the saturation of the AM band, and longer still for FM radio to become profitable for broadcasters

Engineer

• Armstrong decided to become an inventor when he was fourteen and began filling his bedroom with a clutter of homemade wireless gear.

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Quote

• “I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.”

•“It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.”

Reflection

Edwin Howard Armstrong was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He has been called "the most prolific and influential inventor in radio history.

Medals and Reward

• Among the many honors Armstrong received were the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE)and the Medal of Honor of the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE). These were the highest honors of those two predecessor organizations of the IEEE. Sadly, the last years of Armstrong's life were darkened by continual patent litigation, and he committed suicide on 31 January 1954.

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