De Forest
Americannoun
noun
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Yet when De Forest rented a theater in 1923 to demonstrate several sound shorts, studio heads showed no interest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Wisconsin purchasing agents on March 26 paid $19,799 for 2,100 N95s at an Ace Hardware in De Forest.
From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2020
De Forest has not been entirely invisible over these years but this big show is, even online, irrefutable evidence of his stature.
From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2020
Artists included in this show at the Parker include figures such as Wallace Berman, Kurt Schwitters, Roy De Forest and Franklin Williams.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2019
In the United States the De Forest and Fessenden systems are being rapidly extended to embrace the most out-of-the-way districts.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald
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