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2 unusual facts about Edwin Howard Armstrong


Edwin Howard Armstrong award

The Major Armstrong award, named after the inventor of FM radio, Edwin Howard Armstrong, is presented "to AM and FM stations for excellence and originality in radio broadcasting" by the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation at Columbia University.

WQXR-FM

One of the station's listeners was the inventor of frequency modulation, Edwin Howard Armstrong.


Audion

In 1914, Columbia University student Edwin Howard Armstrong worked with professor John Harold Morecroft to document the electrical principles of the Audion.


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