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Edwin Armstrong
(18 Dec 1890 - 1 Feb 1954)

American electrical engineer and inventor who invented FM radio.


Science Quotes by Edwin Armstrong (2)

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 Armstrong
Attributed.
See also:  |  Book (42)  |  Experiment (218)  |  Invention (93)  |  Logic (69)  |  Mathematics (226)  |  Publication (62)

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
— Edwin Armstrong
Attributed.
See also:  |  Imagination (54)  |  Nikola Tesla (2)


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