Lee de Forest and William Shockley Discuss Electronics 



Dr. de Forest is the inventor of the Audion from which the modern vacuum tube w 

 its many forms and types has sprung. Dr. Shockley is the leader of the researcl 

 group at Bell Telephone Laboratories whose members invented the transistor. Stand 

 ing side by side these two men seem to epitomize the basic change in the pattern o 

 our technical life which has taken place during the first half of the present century—'^ 

 the change from the struggling individual inventor to the great industrial scientifi, 

 laboratory as the source of much of our technological advance. 



