Anyone 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." - Meaning and context.">
As quoted in Electronics (2005) by P. Arun, p. 310
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Anyone 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.

— Edwin Howard Armstrong

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Edwin Howard Armstrong

About Edwin Howard Armstrong

Edwin Howard Armstrong (18 December 1890 – 31 March 1954) was an American engineer and the inventor of FM radio.