Skip to definition.
Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps


Noun: Father of Radio
  1. United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961)
    - De Forest, Lee De Forest

Type of: artificer, discoverer, electrical engineer, inventor

Nearest

fateful
fatefully
fat-free
fathead
fatheaded
Father
father
Father Brown
Father Christmas
father figure
Father of Radio
Father of the Church
Father of the Submarine
father surrogate
father-figure
Father-God
fatherhood
Fatherhood
father-in-law
fatherland
fatherless