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Edwin Armstrong
(18 Dec 1890 - 1 Feb 1954)
American electrical engineer and inventor who invented FM radio.
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Science Quotes by Edwin Armstrong (3 quotes)
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
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Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.
— Edwin Armstrong
Testimonial on Tesla’s 75th birthday, Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Serbia. In Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time (2001), 86.
The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
— Edwin Armstrong
Attributed.
See also:
- 18 Dec - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Armstrong's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
