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]
https://gizmodo.com/i-accidentally-invented-electronics-in-1906-5550365
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