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Uncommon card · Science
Lee de Forest, an Uncommon card
Lee de Forest was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and early pioneer in electronics of fundamental importance.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 164
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 34,000
Power 164 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He invented the first practical electronic amplifier, the three-element "Audion" triode vacuum tube in 1908.
- This helped start the Electronic Age, and enabled the development of the electronic oscillator.
- These made radio broadcasting and long-distance telephone lines possible, and led to the development of talking motion pictures, among countless other applications.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lee de Forest article was read about 34,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Lee de Forest
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Lee de Forest (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : The original uploader was Thbusch at English Wikipedia . Later versions were uploaded by N, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
