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 was a member of a talented generation of artists that started emerging in the Bay Area in the early 1950s, among them Joan Brown, Peter Saul, Robert Arneson, H.C.
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
The De Forest wireless telephone was adopted for use in the United States Navy shortly before the cruise around the world in 1908.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
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