Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun father_of_radio

1 sense of father of radio

Sense 1
De Forest, Lee De Forest, Father of Radio -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> electrical engineer -- (a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity)
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)