Edwin Howard Armstrong

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

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

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.
  • As quoted in Electronics (2005) by P. Arun, p. 310

• The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.
  • As quoted in the The Tesla Museum exhibition in Belgrade, and by the Tesla Memorial Society of New York

• Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
  • As quoted in "Edwin Armstrong : Pioneer of the Airwaves" by Yannis Tsividis
  • Unsourced variant: Men like to substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.

Quotes about Edwin Howard Armstrong

• I thought Armstrong would invent some kind of a filter to remove static from our AM radio. I didn't think he'd start a revolution—start up a whole damn new industry to compete with RCA.
  • David Sarnoff, RCA President, quoted in Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture (Penguin, 2004), p. 5, ISBN 1594200068

External links

• "Edwin Armstrong : Pioneer of the Airwaves" by Yannis Tsividis at Columbia University
• Profile of Armstrong at The World
• "Major Edwin Howard Armstrong" by Donna Halper
• "Edwin H. Armstrong" by Mike Katzdorn
• "A History of the Regeneration Circuit : From Invention to Patent Litigation" by Sungook Hong (PDF)
• "The Legacies of Edwin Howard Armstrong" from Proceedings of the Radio Club of America, Vol.64 no.3 (November 1990)