Perham Foundation

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1) "Meet me at The De Forest Wireless Telegraph Tower," card from the St. Louis World's Fair, or Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904. 2) Brochure for the 50th Anniversary of the Electronics Industry, celebrating the De Forest Grid Vacuum Tube (1906-1956) 3) Letter to the editor of the Palo Alto Times from Douglas Perham, 8 January 1957, in response to the claim that 913 Emerson Street is the "Birthplace of Electronics." 4) de Forest and Perham correspondence, 1957 5) Telegram from Russell and Sigurd Varian inviting de Forest to the ground breaking of the new Varian tube plant at Stanford, to observe the fiftieth anniversary of "your historic accomplishment," 14 October 1956, and telegram from de Forest in reply. 6) "Trails for Juniors," February 1962, containing an article on Lee de Forest: "The Radio Tube is Born." (Filed under "de Forest")

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History San Jose Research Library

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California Digital Library