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To: X Y Zebra who wrote (6330)	10/18/2000 9:39:35 PM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 13015

Get a job! In 1913 Lee de Forest, inventor of the audion tube, which device makes radio broadcasting possible, was brought to trial on charges of fraudulently using the U. S. mails to sell the public stock in the Radio Telephone Company, a worthless enterprise. In the court proceedings, the District Attorney charged that: "De Forest has said in many newspapers and over his signature that it would be possible to transmit human voice across the Atlantic before many years. Based on these absurd and deliberately misleading statements, the misguided public...has been persuaded to purchase stock in his company..." De Forest was acquitted, but the judge advised him "to get a common garden variety of job and stick to it." ~Archer, L. History of Radio. American Historical Society, 1938.