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Edwin Howard Armstrong (18 December 1890 β 31 March 1954) was an American engineer and the inventor of FM radio.
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βThe world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination. β
βMen substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
• Unsourced variant: Men like to substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.β
• Unsourced variant: Men like to substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.β
βAnyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications.β
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Edwin Howard Armstrong on Nikola Tesla
βThe world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.β
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David Sarnoff on Edwin Howard Armstrong
βI thought Armstrong would invent some kind of a filter to remove static from our AM radio. I didn't think he'd start a revolutionβstart up a whole damn new industry to compete with RCA.β
About Edwin Howard Armstrong
Edwin Howard Armstrong (18 December 1890 β 31 March 1954) was an American engineer and the inventor of FM radio.